Any light-weight members either wood or steel trusses will and do fail quicker than old style heavy timber or masonry/steel-H column construction. The fact that these assemblies occur in ...

Dive into the essential world of trusses, the backbone of countless engineering structures. This in-depth video explores what ...

Wood truss construction surged in popularity in the 1960s and ’70s, but back then most buildings that used metal-plate-connected wood trusses had flat ceilings. With today’s CAD and BIM technology, ...

The Design of Simple Roof Trusses in Wood and Steel. By M. A. Howe Pp. viii + 129. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1902.) ...

Using steel instead of wood in the construction of framing for new homes is becoming increasingly popular.Steel has significant advantages over wood, according to Jerry Hughes, owner of Anaco ...

Water on hot steel does not cause collapse.” For more information, see Frank Brannigan’s “Building Construction for the Fire Service,” chapters 7 (Steel Construction) and 12 (Trusses ...

Using 3D laser lithography, a team of German scientists have created micro-truss and -shell structures from ceramic polymer composites that exceed the strength-to-weight ratio of all engineering ...

All 33 Truss Systems Hawaii team members have become HPM owner-employees, and operations are continuing seamlessly to produce locally made wood roof trusses, metal trusses, […] ...