dinoTRUS - Arch 244 Structures

This is a structures project we did recently. It reminded me of elementary school, except for the part where we had to calculate loads and figure out the forces on the members and the reaction at each joint. We could design a truss to resemble whatever we wanted, some people made a ski jump truss while others represented the animal kingdom with squirrel, frog, and bird trusses. We used a program called MD Solids (mdsolids.com) where we drew the truss and applied loads. It then calculated whether members were in compression or tension and the forces on each. It was a fun project where we got to be creative with designing trusses.