Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A scissor truss. The scissor truss gets its name from being shaped like a pair of shears (scissors). Two defining features of a scissor truss are: 1) the joint where the bottom chords pass (the hinge of a pair of scissors) must be firmly connected and 2) the rafter (top chord) feet must land on the bottom chords.
The first joist in 1923 was a Warren truss type, with top and bottom chords of round bars and a web formed from a single continuous bent bar. Various other types were developed, but problems also followed because each manufacturer had their own design and fabrication standards.
A scissors truss is a kind of truss used primarily in buildings, in which the bottom chord members cross each other, connecting to the angled top chords at a point intermediate on the top chords' length, creating an appearance similar to an opened pair of scissors. Scissors trusses are used almost entirely in building construction to support a ...
JLG Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Oshkosh Corporation, is an American designer, manufacturer, and marketer of access equipment, including aerial work platforms and telehandlers. JLG is headquartered in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. The company's products are used in various industries such as construction, fit-outs ...
Scissors truss; W. Waddell truss; Warren truss; Whipple truss This page was last edited on 4 January 2014, at 02:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
In 2002, Genie Industries was acquired by Terex Corporation, a global manufacturer of construction and industrial equipment. [6] In the years following the sale, the Genie organization was transitioned over to the Terex Aerial Work Platforms (AWP) segment of Terex. All of the company's products are still sold and marketed under the Genie brand. [4]
Their main business is the manufacture of articulated work platforms, scissor lifts, telescopic work platforms, trailer mounted work platforms and vertical mast-work platforms [6] On July 24, 2008 Haulotte Group acquired Bil-Jax, Inc., the largest U.S. scaffold manufacturer.
The staggered truss structural system consists of story-high steel trusses placed on alternating column lines on each floor so that the long axis of one truss is always between the trusses on the floor below. [4] The system staggers trusses on a 12’ module, meaning that on any given floor the trusses were 24’ apart. [2]