1) The document provides guidance on erecting and bracing trusses for farm buildings.
2) It describes how to position successive trusses using long and short purlins to brace them, and the need to install temporary and permanent cross-bracing as the building progresses.
3) Permanent longitudinal stiffeners and cross-bracing are required at the ends and midspans of long buildings to provide support and prevent buckling of truss members.
1) The document provides guidance on erecting and bracing trusses for farm buildings.
2) It describes how to position successive trusses using long and short purlins to brace them, and the need to install temporary and permanent cross-bracing as the building progresses.
3) Permanent longitudinal stiffeners and cross-bracing are required at the ends and midspans of long buildings to provide support and prevent buckling of truss members.
1) The document provides guidance on erecting and bracing trusses for farm buildings.
2) It describes how to position successive trusses using long and short purlins to brace them, and the need to install temporary and permanent cross-bracing as the building progresses.
3) Permanent longitudinal stiffeners and cross-bracing are required at the ends and midspans of long buildings to provide support and prevent buckling of truss members.
1) The document provides guidance on erecting and bracing trusses for farm buildings.
2) It describes how to position successive trusses using long and short purlins to brace them, and the need to install temporary and permanent cross-bracing as the building progresses.
3) Permanent longitudinal stiffeners and cross-bracing are required at the ends and midspans of long buildings to provide support and prevent buckling of truss members.
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TRUSS ERECTING AND BRACING
The Canada Plan Service prepares detailed plans showing how to construct modern farm buildings, livestock housing systems, storages and equipment for Canadian Agriculture. This leaflet gives the details for a farm building component or piece of farmstead equipment. To obtain another copy of this leaflet, contact your local provincial agricultural engineer or extension advisor.
TRUSS ERECTING AND BRACING
fourth truss into position and fasten it to the previous trusses with long 4.8 m (16 ft) purlins alternating between the short ones. Fasten all subsequent trusses with long purlins. This sequence is illus trated in Figure 5. As soon as four or five trusses are erected and braced with purlins, install some roof sheathing. If you can't do this yet, add temporary cross-bracing on top of the purlins (Figure 5) at the end of the building to prevent S -buckling of all top chords together. The truss design engineer is responsible to check for possible buckling of compression web mem bers; his engineering drawings specify wherever stiffeners are required for lateral support. There is still a possibility that all webs could buckle in the same direction, so permanent cross-braces should be added to the longitudinal stiffeners at each end of the building (Figure 6). Similar permanent longitudinal stiffeners and cross-bracing are required for tension web members 2.4 m (8 ft) and longer in case of stress reversal (wind uplift, etc.). It is also recommended that permanent cross-bracing be installed at midspan between truss pairs at both ends of the building (Figure 6, ). In longer buildings, this permanent cross-bracing should be repeated at approximately 30 m (100 ft) intervals as well. If there is no ceiling, install permanent continuous longitudinal stiffeners to top or bottom of truss lower chords, preferrably where webs join, but not over 2.4 m (8 ft) on center (Figure 6). The crossbracing shown provides support for both the web and lower chord longitudinal stiffeners. Special bracing of the long compression web of a single-slope truss is shown in Figure 7. As each truss is positioned, attach both ends permanently to the top of the wall using metal straps, framing anchors, or bolts (Figure 8). Toenailing the truss to the plate is inadequate. Wind can lift off the entire roof if not properly anchored. Do not use the trusses as a working platform until they are permanently braced. Never overload trusses by applying concentrated loads such as a pile of roof sheathing, shingles, etc. in one spot. Never leave the building site without all temporary and permanent bracing properly installed. If the designer specifies wail-to-roof knee braces for wind bracing in the plane of the truss, fasten these to the top chord where the web member joins (Figure 9). This eliminates bending stresses in the top chord that would develop if the knee braces were fastened between web members. The knee brace is fastened to the bottom chord for lateral support only. Also note that with wind, knee bracing tends to lever the truss up and away from the leeward wall. Therefore knee bracing calls for extra care at the truss-to-wall connections.
Figure 2
1 trusses at 1200 mm (4 ft) oc 2 truss lower chord stiffener or walk plank (up to 2400 mm oc, if no ceiling) 3 38x140 mm (2x6) blocking between end trusses (see 6) 4 longitudinal stiffeners for compression web members, see truss plan 5 cross-bracing, 38 x 140 mm (2 x 6) typical not over 3600 mm (12 ft) oc across endwall) 6 cross-bracing should be at corners and center of wide endwall doorways to stiffen door track and header (see M-9341, Sliding Doors)
Figure 6
Figure 7 1 38 x 140 mm (2 x 6) blocking between end pair of trusses 2 38 x 64 mm (2 x 3) longitudinal stiffener f or compression web members (see truss plan) 3 38 x 140 mm (2 x 6) cross-bracing above and below 2 4 38 x 140 mm (2 x 6) block between 3
