Truss Design

Each separate truss (of the dimensions 920x5x50mm) consisted of a Pratt truss with nine diagonal members on each side of the centre. The model was tested in sufficiently isolated condition by tutors. It successfully passed the initial weight test, and satisfactorily resisted horizontal forces. Once fitted onto the testing rig, loads were applied and increased incrementally. Slight deformation was observed before failing at 12.5 kg, at which force a collection of members failed in succession, concluding the test.

The Pratt truss bridge was originally founded by Caleb and Thomas Pratt in 1844. It is mainly used to carry trains. The biggest advantage of this bridge was its low costs for construction and the materials to construct a truss bridge are minimal. It also use materials that is cheaper and light in weight. We can easily identify a pratt truss by detecting its diagonal members, which (excluding for the very end ones) all slant down and in toward the center of the span. The pratt truss was designed by applying few laws that related to the mechanics of materials concept. The bridge is mainly built using steel girders to support the construction of the structure. The below part of bridge weight is high so, it need an enough support to prevent from

Truss bridges have been around for a long time. I see truss bridges the most out of all the different types of bridges and to me it seems like the most popular type of bridge. In addition there are thirty different types of Truss bridges which means that there is a bigger variety of Truss Bridges instead of just having one type. Truss bridges have triangular shaped beams that go all across the bridge. The bridge also is above the roadway instead of under the roadway like the arch bridge. Truss bridges could also stretch very far. The longest cantilever Truss bridge that goes is called Crescent City Connection and it is 13,418 feet long with a width of 52 feet. There is also a really long Truss bridge that is near Hoboken, the name of the bridge

There are five major metal trusses-the Pratt, Warren, Parker, Camelback, and Pennsylvania. The Pratt truss is a simpler truss that was patented in 1844 by Thomas Pratt, an engineer. He used pins to connect the trusses together. Pratt trusses were used a lot in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth century. The Warren truss became more popular in the 1900s after engineers realized it was more structurally logical to rivet and bolt pieces together than to use pins. This truss bridge was fit for highway uses. The Parker truss, which derived from the Pratt truss, was developed in the mid-nineteenth century. It was well suited for especially long spans. The Camelback is closer to the Parker truss which could only be used for long crossings. The Pennsylvania truss is similar to the Pratt truss. It was developed in 1875 and also worked quite well for long

Warren truss has members joined only by angled cross-members. This forms equilateral truss. It is light and strong and makes an economical truss.

The truss bridge I will focus on is Hampden Bridge, located in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. Hampden Bridge is a wood Truss bridge that crosses the Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. This bridge opened to the public on 11 November 1895 and it was closed in October 1995 due to Wiradjuri Bridge opening. The bridge is 100.5 metres long, all of the 3 truss spans 33.5 metres. Hampden Bridge is the first large overhead-braced truss bridge made by Percy Allan. The bridge was originally designed to be a steel, but the tenders were too expensive. timber was used as the alternative. The Hampden bridge replaced the Wagga Wagga bridge,this bridge was made in 1892 and alos crossed the Murrumbidgee river. Percy Allan made the third of five standard wooden truss bridges. there is a clear difference of development between the pre Allan era and the post Allan era. Allan completely redesigned how timber truss bridges were made in NSW. He often based his bridge design on the American Howe bridge although he exploited the much stronger woods in Australia, to reduce the design its bare essentials, this is show in the differences between the two bridges before Allan made his and Allan’s bridges all around New South

Prior of this time, most bridge design were based on trusses, arches, and cantilevers to support heavy freight trains. Automobiles were obviously much lighter. Suspension bridge design had been envolving into producing bridges of maximum grace, lightness and flexibility which actually was more suited for carrying lighter cars and not heavier train. Unfortunately, engineers did not fully understand the response of the suspension bridge design to these poorly understand forces. The second reson was due to the excitation of torsional mode. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built with shallow plate girders instead of the deep stiffening trusses of railway bridges, in which trusses allowed wind to pass through but plate girders, on the other hand, present an obstacle to the wind. As a result of its design, it was proved that the bridge was too light and unstable. And causing alloping Gertieaction which were driven by the wind were being experienced by the bridge.

Employers spend thousands of dollars to ensure workplace safety. However when an accident occurs, and company’s production and sales are at stake, many overlook operational best practices in business ethics. Today, companies are greatly impacted by society’s evolvultion toward a “good” place for everyone which is diverse in culture, religion, and socioeconomic background. This trajectory drives social changes, activists, and theorists who believe attaining “the good” is worth pursuing and has no boundaries. As Aristotle noted, the end goals of political and individual well-being are justice and happiness (Collins, 2015). In examining the “Trouble in the Truss Construction Shop” case study, a utilitarian approach was used to ethically formulate possible remedies to the Truss Construction Shop issue with employee safety.

The Warren Truss Bridge is one of the many types of Truss bridges. The different types all have something in common though because they are all Truss bridges which have some sort of triangular figures in the bridge supports. Structures of the bridges were borrowed from Britain and Europe by America in the mid 1800’s. There were no exact records of when the first Truss was built though. Warren truss has a long history, as these structures served as the basis for quite a few bridges across all parts of the world. (5) Although, Warren Truss was becoming part of the

The history of building truss bridges in the United States goes back to the late eighteen century, when in 1792, Timothy Palmer built in Massachusetts, his Newburyport Bridge, across the Merrimack River, thus proving the possibility of “fast and inexpensive” construction of a bridge. Very quickly, the “new” idea of bridge design was incorporated into repertoire of many designers, and a number of truss bridges, mostly across the Eastern coast of a country, was built. The majority of early truss bridges were single span, statically determinate structures, built out of timber, with the design aspect based mostly on the engineering intuition of their creators. Throughout the next two centuries, many types of truss bridges were designed and built,

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The experiment we chose to accomplish was to test trusses and observe which upheld the most weight. Obvious constraints were placed on this, as it was not just open-ended. All trusses were to be based off the same design, with just the addition of more vertical beams on various trusses, the number of beams incrementing steadily.

First is the Pratt Truss. The Pratt Truss bridge is a common trapezoid shaped bridge which can be identified by its diagonal beams which all slant down, never up (not including the starting beam). The next type of Truss bridge is the Camelback Truss bridge which is similar to the Pratt Truss except the Camelback has a slight arch. The purpose of the arch is to create a lighter structure without losing any strength, concentrating most of the strength towards the middle of the bridge than the ends. Lastly, the Warren Truss bridge. The Warren Truss bridge uses equilateral triangle shaped beams to spread out the forces. Truss bridges are mostly the same in terms of overall shape, though there are many slight variations that are made to fix the needs of bridges in different geographical

By  contrasting steel columns and wooden cabinets in the Farnsworth House  (1945‐50,  Plano,  Illinois),  Mies  van  der  Rohe  freed  architects  from  the  constraints of conventional nineteenth century design paradigms.15 The  combination of charcoal black steel girders and walls of glass in the ITT  Crown Hall (1950‐6, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago) is another  example  of  how  he  revolutionised  architecture  from  the  highly  decorative and fussy buildings of the nineteenth century, to the stylish  cubic  shapes  we  recognise  today.16  Windows  were  replaced  with  exterior  glass  surfaces  and  steel  girders  were  used  to  remove  internal  supporting  columns,  thus  opening  interior  space  within  the  building.17  Low partitioned walls separated teaching classes in the ITT Crown Hall  but  facilitated  communication  between  students  and  teachers.18  The  building  was  extremely  functional  as  it  could  be  adapted  to  serve  unanticipated purposes.19 New materials allowed Mies van der Rohe to  dramatically alter the conventional boundaries of architecture.     One  of  Mies  van  der  Rohe’s  greatest  contributions  to  the  architectural  profession has been the innovative steel frame vernacular, which to this  day

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