IBC table 1604.3 allows lower deflections for roof members not supporting a ceiling. What about a steel or wood deck that is the structural deck and the ceiling. A ceiling is not hung or supported by the deck as the deck itself is the exposed ceiling. Would this fall under
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Local press-plate truss company designs glulam beams and other engineered wood beams to be used in their truss packages. They develop the loads and generate a woodworks report analysis for the beams. They then send that report to an engineer and he seals it. This engineer only has the woodworks...
Just wondering if anyone had some ideas that I haven't thought of.
I have a relatively new (3 years old) glulam truss that spans 75' over a Firehouse. The roof experienced an above average snow load in December and now the truss is deflected 3.5" at centerline and is very noticeable from the...
I have a heavy timber truss that has a continuous one piece bottom chord 40'. The first 10' and last 10' are slightly in compression. The center 20' is in tension. I am using the unbraced length of 10' but I'm not sure what the (K) buckling length coefficient should be? If the bottom chord was...
