Hooped Truss 1

[SteynvW]

Busy doing some small alterations to a building, saw these trusses.
A mechanical engineer's dream. It is a interesting use of Vierendeel Action!

 

[driftLimiter]

Epic

 

[bugbus]

Very cool, would make a nice looking bridge

 

[KootK]

Neat! Thanks for sharing Steynv.

It's hard to know but, if this thing was "designed" at all, my money is on:

1) At the least, I'd be tempted to call it a kingpost truss with the big hoop in compression.

2) You'd get some Vierendeel action but I suspect that would wind up being pretty soft.

 

[Mohamed Mowafy]

interesting truss

 

[XR250]

Yea, I'm surprised it works.

I suppose FEA had the answer

 

[JStephen]

The green tubes have cables going up to the ceiling for support.
Is there more structure up there out of sight, or is that a slab spanning across there and also supporting the green tubes?
Where the white/hooped trusses connect to the columns, that does not look like a very beefy connection, which makes me wonder what they are actually supporting.