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Back to the 15:1 truss. Here's the member force diagram for a 45x3 pin jointed truss that looks vaguely like the original, with 100...

@GregLocock beautifully done. That's exactly what I was getting at with the low Ix_truss to Ix_chord ratio. The left hand side of the...

Just keep doing what you've been doing (please). Not in this thread, per se, but within this forum. As with most things rooted in...

I'm afraid that I am enough of an anomaly that I have to admit that EOR skepticism is not without justification. The largest problem...

Certainly that is the case with me, in my market. I used to be a truss designer, it doesn't pay super well. Being a staff engineer at...

Clearly I've let the pendulum swing a bit too far in that direction. Let's say that I'm the rubber truss stamper on one of your...

I certainly understand the sentiment but I'm going to take this opportunity to push back on the designer mistrust a bit. MPCWT = Metal...

No. Some kind of flange plate arrangement that passes the cantilever beam flange forces through the column.

The bolted end plate connection will be cost effective but it's not as though there aren't other connection types that would allow you...

What a wonderful gesture. The Weaver book is an absolute treasure. Ditto for Friedman. Somebody should jump on that for sure.

You should be good then. The only EOR hang-up that I can envision, potentially, is concern for rotational ductility in the beam to...

Sounds about right. I assume that we're speaking of a wide flange column and not an HSS column.

I'm in a northern climate but, here, the deck's corrugated profile would never be exposed to the elements as you've described. Rather...

I would expect that the purpose of the tie plate is to axially splice beams forming part of the collector / chord system on either side...