This is one of those framing members that can seem a little complicated.
Timber frame knee brace.
Timber frame knee brace with centered tenon.
This brace is centered on the tie beam which has been rotated so you can see into the mortise and the brace tenon is centered on the brace.
They are not that bad as long as you do a little homework before laying them out and.
This is an exploded view of a brace tenon and its mortise.
But if this were true braces would almost always.
One beam between the post and brace and another between the brace and the next post.
There are 14 total braces needed for my small timber frame proj.
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Static forces acting in a timber frame through its braces an engi neer tells me that i should treat a brace as if it were a post and divide the supported beam above into two separate beams.