Thanks to SlideRuleEra, XR250, pvchabot, dik and Compositepro for their very helpful suggestions
Now I have clear ideas how to approach the problem.
I also recalculated. Dead load is about 30 lbs/sqft. With roof inclination about 22.5 degrees, spacing of truss at 2 feet, with 47 feet span, 68...
We will double check the bottom chord tension 13k load. The truss is not a deep truss, only 2'9" deep,46 feet span, and sloped tiled roof, truss spaced at 2ft centers, so the dead load is high. we will also double check the designed loadings.
Also come along is a good idea to compress the truss...
just closing the gap with steel plates, will not introduce Tension, without pulling two sides together to close the gap.
Can Enerpac be used to pull two horizontal members together ? if it is possible then we will try that. thanks
We had the complete break in the chord one side by pulling away from the splice, and noticed by sagging under splice.
when we jacked we jacked only at next nodal points on either side gradually without distorting the truss anyway
The structure is about 8 years old. It is in a condominium...
The truss separated with a wide gap. it is the failure of the joint. Bottom chord was completely de loaded up to next nodal point.
it was not supported with jacks fora week, and when it was noticed that adjacent trusses are being impacted, we have jacked the adjacent trusses also, until a fix...
We have 46 feet span roof trusses for an auditorium. One of the roof truss had bottom chord failure.We have temporary jack supports until the permanent fix is made. The truss failed at the splice. Splice was not at the node point, but almost at the center.
Since it is a clay tiled roof, the...
