Thursday, May 17, 2007

Fagg's Mitre10 Belmont

The Mitre10 building in Belmont uses a variety of timer trusses, here
we can see a simple triangular truss that uses timber for the cords and
webs and steel for the plates, the purlins are also made of timber

The steel column supports the junction between the differing trusses.
Each truss is connected to the column with steel plates and bolts that
are connected to its chords.

The most interesting part of this building was the curved lattice
trusses in the middle section. This system of truss is extremely thin
and light weight yet still manages to be very strong. The lattice truss
utilizes very thin webs yet is made up of many of them.

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