Question: For the two story braced frame below, design the diagonal members as threaded rods, find the smallest rod that will satisfy the presented factored loads.

For the two story braced frame below, design the diagonal members as threaded rods, find the smallest rod that will satisfy the presented factored loads. Note that the loads should be assumed to act in both horizontal directions, making the diagonals change from compression to tension members, so they may need to be designed for both. The analysis (determining the right loads) may be a little tricky for this problem. Do not use a computer program to solve the truss, that will be much more work than is necessary. Hints (1) Threaded rods cannot take very much compression, you can assume that they will buckle and not take any load in compression (2) given this information you should be able to solve this frame using statics.
For the two story braced frame below, design the

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