Roof Load Analysis

This will help you keep track of them while installing each triangular truss and it can be a handy reference for which nodes you have assigned as load bearing fixed and rolling.

Roof load analysis.

It is a good idea to fill in the resulting numbers from the truss load calculations on your roof truss sketch from the beginning. If your roof is pitched enter the length and width of the flat area covered by the roof. But isn t it more accurate to figure the weight of snow and roofing materials by measuring along the actual length of the rafter. The north zone middle zone and the south zone are identified on the roof load zone map above.

This downward imposed load on the home is also known as the snow load. Roof loads are a downward vertical force on the home. Thus as the roof gets steeper the rafter gets longer and the weight of roofing materials increases. For ground snow loads greater than 20 pounds per square foot the roof load is equal to 70 of the product of the exposure thermal and importance factors the ground snow load and 20 pounds.

It is important to list live load dead load and total load separately because live load is used to compute stiffness and total load is used to calculate strength. 15 psf x 14ft 210 pounds per lineal foot. You need to supply the following information. Roof load live load design is affected by the shape of the roof whether it is flat curved or pitched.

For roofs that are flat and with ground snow loads lower than 20 pounds per square foot the roof snow load is equal to 70 of the product of the exposure thermal and importance factors and the ground snow load. 910 pounds per lineal foot. Alternately there are now computer software programs that will both calculate your roof truss load and render a diagram of what the end result should be. To calculate the weight of snow on a roof use the first two sections of our snow load calculator.

50 psf x 14ft 700 pounds per lineal foot. You can enter these values in any units you d like including meters and feet.