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    This document discusses different types of trusses and assumptions made in truss analysis. It describes simple trusses as formed by connecting three members to make triangles, with additional triangles added by joining two new members to existing joints. Compound trusses are made of two or more connected simple trusses. Complex trusses cannot be classified as simple or compound and cannot be analyzed using the method of sections or joints. The document also lists four assumptions made in truss analysis, including that connections are frictionless pins, members are straight, displacements are small, and loads are applied only at joints.

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    This document discusses different types of trusses and assumptions made in truss analysis. It describes simple trusses as formed by connecting three members to make triangles, with additional triangles added by joining two new members to existing joints. Compound trusses are made of two or more connected simple trusses. Complex trusses cannot be classified as simple or compound and cannot be analyzed using the method of sections or joints. The document also lists four assumptions made in truss analysis, including that connections are frictionless pins, members are straight, displacements are small, and loads are applied only at joints.

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    This document discusses different types of trusses and assumptions made in truss analysis. It describes simple trusses as formed by connecting three members to make triangles, with additional triangles added by joining two new members to existing joints. Compound trusses are made of two or more connected simple trusses. Complex trusses cannot be classified as simple or compound and cannot be analyzed using the method of sections or joints. The document also lists four assumptions made in truss analysis, including that connections are frictionless pins, members are straight, displacements are small, and loads are applied only at joints.

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    CHAPTER III

    ANALYSIS OF TRUSSES

    TRUSS
    A truss is a structure composed of
    individual members joined together so as to
    form a series of triangles.

    SIMPLE, COMPOUND, AND COMPLEX


    TRUSSES
    Simple Trusses
    forming a truss is connecting three members at
    their ends to form a triangle. Subsequent
    segments are incorporated by adding two
    members and one joint; the new members meet
    at the new joint and each is pinned at its opposite
    ends into one of the existing joints. Trusses
    formed in this way are said to be simple trusses.

    Compound Trusses
    A compound truss is a truss made by connecting
    two or more simple trusses. The simple trusses
    may be connected by three nonparallel nonconcurrent links, by one joint and one link, by a
    connecting truss, by two or more joints, and so
    on. An almost unlimited number of trusses may be
    formed in this way. The truss shown in Figure (a)
    consists of the two shaded simple trusses that are
    connected with a joint and a link.

    Complex Trusses
    There are a few trusses that are statically determinate
    externally that do not meet the requirements necessary to
    fall within the classification of either simple or compound
    trusses. Such a truss is shown in Figure (b). These are
    referred to as complex trusses.
    The members of simple and compound trusses usually are
    arranged so that sections may be passed through three
    members at a time; moments are taken about the
    intersection of two of them and the force in the third
    member is found. Complex trusses may not be analyzed in
    this manner. Not only does the method of sections fail to
    simplify the analysis, the methods of joints is also of no
    avail.

    ASSUMPTIONS FOR TRUSS ANALYSIS


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    Truss members are connected with frictionless pins. In reality, pin


    connections are used for very few trusses erected today, and no
    pins are frictionless. A heavy bolted or welded joint is very
    different from a frictionless pin.
    Truss members are straight. If they were not straight, the axial
    forces would cause them to have bending moments.
    The displacement of the truss is small. The applied loads cause
    the members to change length, which then causes the truss to
    deform. The deformations of a truss are not of sufficient
    magnitude to cause appreciable changes in the overall shape and
    dimensions of the truss. Special consideration may have to be
    given to some very long and flexible trusses.
    Loads are applied only at the joints. Members are arranged so
    that the loads and reactions are only applied at the truss joints.

    SOLA DE GLORIA

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