IMPROVING STRUCTURAL EFFICIENCY OF STEEL COMBINED TRUSSES

2025;
: 65-72
https://doi.org/10.23939/jtbp2025.01.065
Received: March 07, 2025
Revised: April 09, 2025
Accepted: May 02, 2025
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Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of building production
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Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of building production
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Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of Building Production
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Lviv Polytechnic National University, Department of Building Production

The article considers the issues of increasing the efficiency of steel combined sprengel trusses by developing rational design solutions by improving their stressed-strain state. The research methodology is based on a comparative analysis of technical and economic indicators in terms of material consumption of traditional typical and lightweight combined steel trusses. Three levels of adaptation are considered that affect the consumption of steel in the panels of the upper chord of a combined truss. Examples of achieving structure efficiency of trusses are given. A new method of practical analysis has been developed for the selection, analysis and assessment of the rationality of the stressed-strain state of stiffening girders of combined trusses. Diagrams of total normal stresses in cross-sections of the stiffening girder of a combined truss with 8 panels with a span of 30 m are given and it is shown that they are more uniform in the central part compared to a typical truss.

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