steel deck bracing steel beams
steel deck bracing steel beams
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What are your opinions?
When the deck ribs are parallel to a steel beam, and the top of the beam is at the deck bearing elevation, can the deck be considered to brace the beam against LTB?
When the deck ribs are parallel to a steel beam, and the top of the beam is at the deck bearing elevation, can the deck be considered to brace the beam against LTB?






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Dik
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I agree that with deck paralle to the girder the safe thing to do is assume brace points at the infill beams. With the flange parallel to the deck ribs it's questionable that you will get good connections between the flange and the deck. Also, you would have to question that even if you did get good connections if the deck was stiff and strong enough to provide the bracing with the ribs parallel to the beam. I know engineers who do consider the beam braced when the ribs are parallel.
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Dik
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Having said that, I would say that the prudent engineer would not waste time trying to determine the accordian stiffness of a metal deck and would instead rely on the intermittent supported beams for the lateral stability.