Awning Truss Design Considerations
An awning truss usually refers to a cantilevered truss with a collinear support configuration, e.g., attached to a vertical wall of a building. You may have seen them at the front of commercial shops providing shelter without impeding the flow of pedestrians since there are no post and beam supports at the cantilevered end. An example in housing would be mono trusses that form eaves or continuations of eave overhangs at ground floor roof level which “hangs off” an upper storey section – usually connecting to or being supported within the floor space as shown in Figure 1. This article will highlight some of the traps for the unweary estimator or designer.
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