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    Truss Individual Report

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    The document provides background information on a modular truss apparatus experiment. The experiment aims to determine forces in members of a plane truss. The unit allows measurement of bar forces in single plane trusses subjected to a single external force. It consists of bars that can form different truss structures and include strain gauges to measure forces on each bar. An external force is applied using a load application device and bar forces can be visualized on a computer.

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    The document provides background information on a modular truss apparatus experiment. The experiment aims to determine forces in members of a plane truss. The unit allows measurement of bar forces in single plane trusses subjected to a single external force. It consists of bars that can form different truss structures and include strain gauges to measure forces on each bar. An external force is applied using a load application device and bar forces can be visualized on a computer.

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    The document provides background information on a modular truss apparatus experiment. The experiment aims to determine forces in members of a plane truss. The unit allows measurement of bar forces in single plane trusses subjected to a single external force. It consists of bars that can form different truss structures and include strain gauges to measure forces on each bar. An external force is applied using a load application device and bar forces can be visualized on a computer.

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    Truss Individual Report

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    The document provides background information on a modular truss apparatus experiment. The experiment aims to determine forces in members of a plane truss. The unit allows measurement of bar forces in single plane trusses subjected to a single external force. It consists of bars that can form different truss structures and include strain gauges to measure forces on each bar. An external force is applied using a load application device and bar forces can be visualized on a computer.

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    Tan Shou Kang

    ID: 16WTD03024

    Background Information of Modular Truss Apparatus

    The experiment Modular Truss Apparatus is to determine the forces in members of a plane truss. A
    truss is a structure comprising five or more triangular units constructed with straight members
    whose ends are connected at nodes. External forces and reactions to those forces are considered to
    act only at the nodes and result in forces in the members, which are either tensile or compressive
    forces. A planar truss is a truss where all the members and nodes lie within a two dimensional plane.
    The Unit for studying Forces in Different Single Plane Trusses (MFCS1) allows the measurement of
    the bar forces in a single plane truss subjected to a single external force, in a statically determinate
    truss.

    The Unit for studying Forces in Different Single Plane Trusses (MFCS1) allows the measurement of
    the bar forces in various single plane trusses, the study of the dependency on the external force and
    the comparison of the experimental bar forces with several mathematical methods.

    The unit consists of several bars with snap-locks at their ends to engage easily the bars in the node
    discs. The bars can form triangular units with different angles.

    The bars have several lengths to form different truss structures and are subjected only to tensile or
    compressive stress. Our structures can be considered as ideal, because the friction is neglected and
    the nodes do not transmit the moments. All bars include a strain gauge to measure the force on
    each bar.

    To generate an external force, a load application device is attached to a node disc. This device
    includes a force gauge that can be mounted on different node discs.

    The frame includes two supports with two node discs to hinge the truss structure to the frame of the
    unit.

    The unit includes an electronic console with a digital display to show all the readings. This console
    allows to visualize, together with the software, the measurement data and graphical representation
    of the bar forces in the computer (PC). (Edibon, 2014)

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