Wood truss construction surged in popularity in the 1960s and ’70s, but back then most buildings that used metal-plate-connected wood trusses had flat ceilings. With today’s CAD and BIM technology, ...

Exposed trusses are exceptional architectural elements, at once structural -- they hold up the roof -- while modulating a space to give it scale and rhythm. But with the many truss types out there, ...

Description: Determination of deflections by the method of virtual work; analysis of trusses, continuous beams, and frames by direct stiffness method; approximate methods of analysis.

Undamped single degree-of-freedom system -- Damped single degree-of-freedom system -- Response of one-degree-of-freedom system to harmonic loading -- Response to general dynamic loading -- Fourier ...