Saw something useful today. Need help with the monkey math.

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Was picking up some steel today and had to wait in the warehouse area for awhile. Had time to notice a few 3 sided sheds that was just plain out handy. They were about 15x15 down to about 12x12. They were leanto type with a frame of about 2x2 box tubing with tin roofing screwed to it. The front had no bottom bar and they had about 8inch swivel wheels on each corner. They could use them for working on stuff outside and could roll them inside each and store several in a space the size of the biggest one. Would make a real nice pasture shelter for a horse or two.
Where would I find something that told me in dummy terms what size material would span ???distance without wobbling or how often to brace etc?

Thanks, Dave
 
It depends on the size, how the bracing is configured, how tall it is, what sort of loading you expect, how it is connected, how many tubes in the structure. The strength of an individual piece is not representative of the total span you could make (say with a shallow truss).

-Structural Engineering Monkey
 
Was it something like in this link, called versatube?They show them as Car ports,and also horse shelters,only thing is,no wheel,but a couple of casters,and some flat steel,it would be easily movable.
versatube
 

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