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This document contains a tutorial on analyzing trusses with 7 problems. It provides figures of various truss structures and asks students to classify the trusses, determine zero-force members, calculate member forces using methods of joints and sections, and identify if forces are tensile or compressive. Students are to analyze statically determinate and indeterminate trusses subjected to various loading conditions.

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Tutorial 3 Trusses

This document contains a tutorial on analyzing trusses with 7 problems. It provides figures of various truss structures and asks students to classify the trusses, determine zero-force members, calculate member forces using methods of joints and sections, and identify if forces are tensile or compressive. Students are to analyze statically determinate and indeterminate trusses subjected to various loading conditions.

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AM1100: Engineering Mechanics April-June 2021

Tutorial 3
TRUSSES

1. Classify each of the structures shown (in Fig. 1) as completely, partially, or improperly constrai-
ned; if completely constrained, further classify as determinate or indeterminate. (All members
can act both in tension and in compression.)

Fig. 1

2. Determine the zero-force members in the truss shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

3. Determine the force in each member of the truss shown in Fig. 3 using method of joints and
state if the members are in tension or compression. The load has a mass of 40 kg.

Fig. 3

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4. Determine the forces in all the members of the truss shown in Fig. 4 using method of joints.

Fig. 4

5. Determine the force in member BF of the loaded truss shown in Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

6. The Howe bridge truss is subjected to the loading shown in Fig. 6. Determine the force in
members HD, CD, and GD. All state if the members are in tension or compression.

Fig. 6

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7. The given figure shows the loading pattern for a stadium roof truss shown in Fig. 7. Determine
the force in members BC, BH and GH using the method of sections.

Fig. 7

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