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Laterally braced beam

Laterally braced beam

Laterally braced beam

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I have to design a lintel 40 feet long. It will be supporting 12" solid cmu wall above so top flanges will be embed. Is it laterally supported or not. I think not.

RE: Laterally braced beam

It will be laterally unsupported unless you can provide braces to it from the nearest floor or roof.

RE: Laterally braced beam

It depends.  Does the 12" CMU go up to a diaphragm, but there's no other diaphragm lower on the wall?

For example, if there's a lower diaphragm, the wall might be stiff enough out of plane to provide bracing.

RE: Laterally braced beam

I do not consider a steel lintel in a masonry wall braced.  You could go about determining if the top flange is braced if it is embedded into a bond beam above and the bond course is attached to vertical reinforcing at the ends of the opening to transfer the load up and down to the floor/roof diaphragms.  Being as this is 40' long I would not count on that, or be very careful about using that.

RE: Laterally braced beam

The bottom line is that it's assumed unbraced unless you can figure out a way to show that it's braced.  

The 13th Ed. Spec. Appendix 6 provides ways to determine if a beam is braced against twist or compression flange lateral translation--prove one or the other or both.

Depending on the details of your situation, you might be able to show that it's braced.  Of course it requires plenty of judgment.

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