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Wood Gusset Connected Trusses

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medeek

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Mar 16, 2013
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I've done some work analyzing and programming a truss calculator for MPC wood trusses however I've put that project on hold and I'm not looking at trusses made with plywood gussets. I'm not finding a significant amount of information online regarding these types of trusses. Does anyone have any links or even books they could recommend. I would like to create a truss calculator for this type of truss that is similar to the previous calculator I started working on, however this time I will incorporate the wind and snow load cases as well as engineer the gusset plates (ring shank nails and glue).
 
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I like your thinking Woodman88. I've made some updates to the current program below:

Updates:

Version 1.0.5 - 07.26.2014

- Added lumber species selection under advanced options.
- Tension perpendicular to grain check added for joint (6) and (7).
- Updated AutoCAD drawing generator so that it now draws the metal connector plates at the correct sizes.
- Limited heel joint plate selection algorithm so that the heel plate is single, symetric and does not exceed bottom chord depth in height.

My next objective will be to create an option for plywood plates vs. metal plates.
 
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