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Trussed Rafter, Simple Truss, or Three-Hinged Arch
This paper discusses two different, but related cases. The first case involves a roof failure at a manufacturing facility. The second case involves the remodeling of a very old residential roof system. The study of the roof failure was part of an insurance claim investigation. The engineers, who were engaged to provide professional insight, chose different analytical models, and arrived at very different conclusions. The second case is a remodeling case which is included because it serves to remind the designer that a safe and reasonable load path to the ground must be identified. The roof structure of this very old building needed to be modified to accommodate the remodeling being proposed. This old structure had not been engineered, and the remodeling proposal required the altering of the existing load path which had been demonstrated by history to be safe. When the assumed existing safe load path was analyzed, it was not found to be safe.
Trussed Rafter, Simple Truss, or Three-Hinged Arch
This paper discusses two different, but related cases. The first case involves a roof failure at a manufacturing facility. The second case involves the remodeling of a very old residential roof system. The study of the roof failure was part of an insurance claim investigation. The engineers, who were engaged to provide professional insight, chose different analytical models, and arrived at very different conclusions. The second case is a remodeling case which is included because it serves to remind the designer that a safe and reasonable load path to the ground must be identified. The roof structure of this very old building needed to be modified to accommodate the remodeling being proposed. This old structure had not been engineered, and the remodeling proposal required the altering of the existing load path which had been demonstrated by history to be safe. When the assumed existing safe load path was analyzed, it was not found to be safe.
Trussed Rafter, Simple Truss, or Three-Hinged Arch
Bill, Jr., Herbert L. (author)
Second Forensic Engineering Congress ; 2000 ; San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
Forensic Engineering (2000) ; 293-299
2000-04-24
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Trussed Rafter, Simple Truss, or Three-Hinged Arch
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000
Engineering Index Backfile | 1946
Engineering Index Backfile | 1946
| NTIS | 1983
| TIBKAT | 1983