Henry94606
Student
- May 24, 2021
- 11
Hi structure engineers,
I ve been told roof hip carries half the load of supported rafters.
As in this pix, I can see it carries half the load of red rafters, and other half of the blue rafters, approximately. So, correct if I m wrong, half and half is one.
By geometry, it seems the hip transfers some load to its bottom end (wall corner).
Observation from reality: A) normally I see engineer specify no support at wall corner. Is this load small enough to disregard ?
B) very much a double 2x6 is what I normally see for hip spanning less than 10ft. Is it also the result of the "half load" calculation I am talking about?
Thx
I ve been told roof hip carries half the load of supported rafters.
As in this pix, I can see it carries half the load of red rafters, and other half of the blue rafters, approximately. So, correct if I m wrong, half and half is one.
By geometry, it seems the hip transfers some load to its bottom end (wall corner).
Observation from reality: A) normally I see engineer specify no support at wall corner. Is this load small enough to disregard ?
B) very much a double 2x6 is what I normally see for hip spanning less than 10ft. Is it also the result of the "half load" calculation I am talking about?
Thx
