Concrete Slab
Concrete Slab
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I have a concrete roof deck that I need to check for its capacity to support a swing stage. The load will translate to a point load at two points along the concrete roof deck. What is the area I can distrubute this load over? Is there any way to better distrubute the load over a larger area to the concrete deck? Maybe plywwod at the point of contact of the swing stage base to the deck?






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The steel plate, if thick enough will spread out the load more efficiently, and stiffeners can be used to lessen the thickness of the plate if needed.
Mike McCann
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Also, don't forget to check shear (one way and two way) and deflection.
DaveAtkins
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