What is a Truss?
- In Architecture and Structural Engineering, a truss is a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight slender members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes.
- External forces and reactions to those forces are considered to act only at the nodes and result in forces in the members which are either tensile or compressive forces.
- Moments (torsional forces) are explicitly excluded because, and only because, all the joints in a truss are treated as revolutes.
In this article, we are going to discuss the various types of roof trusses in wood and steel and their uses in various kinds of construction.
Different types of Wooden and Steel Roof Trusses:
- King Post Truss
- Queen Post Truss
- Howe Truss
- Pratt Truss
- Fan Truss
- North Light Roof Truss
- Quadrangular Roof Truss
Trusses for large span constructions
King Post Truss
- King Post Truss is a wooden truss.
- It can also be built of combination of wood and steel.
- It can be used for spans upto 8m.