You re looking at magnificent floor trusses. These are spanning 28 feet, but you can go greater distances with ease. There s no need for a bearing wall or beam under them to support the weight ...

Long-span steel truss beams create large open spaces. The lightweight steel bar joist must be viewed by firefighters as extremely hazardous in roof and floor construction for two reasons ...

The course is mainly focused to plane structures with line members (beams and trusses) under linear theory hypotheses. Various types of structures are analyzed such as simple beam, continuous beam, ...