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Fly brace
A brace from the bottom flange of a rafter to a roof purlin that restrains the rafter laterally.



fly brace

In the photo above the white braces are bolted to the bottom chord of a Pratt girder roof support, via a welded cleat. Normally in a position like this the brace is bolted to the steel Zed purlin though the overlap fixing bolts to take advantage of the extra stiffness as shown in the photo below.

A steel angle, say 50x50x5 is commonly used though both of these example show smaller angles being used.

fly bracing



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