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Re: Truss Joint Construction Details
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:26:44 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Thomas Avery writes:
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> For simple truss designs, where the top and bottom chords are parallel,
> construction is fairly simple:
> http://www.texbrick.com/ideas/truss/truss_ideas.html
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> My white bridge has joints where up to 5 different members at different
> angles are joined together. This makes for a very difficult joint.
Indeed. I did it slightly differently (but same basic idea for my harbour
bridge http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=95722. This was forced
on me by the weight of the arch - not having the symmetric main beams would've
damaged the connection axles, or the holes they went through. When the main
beams are parallel, the beams entering either side can just be joined, reducing
the width by a stud. Of course, I cheated again on my small "truss" bridge,
'cos I wanted to reduce it to 2 studs wide
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13433.
ROSCO (alias "The bridge cheat!")
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| (...) Thanks JT! You can make things a little easier by not connecting all the member ends at one common point (like you did with the diagonal connection). Also, take a look at Ross' truss bridge: (URL) joints don't meet at a common point, or (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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