Masonry Bearing Wall Supporting Steel Beam (Compromised fire rating?)
Masonry Bearing Wall Supporting Steel Beam (Compromised fire rating?)
(OP)
I have an 8" cmu, 2-hr, masonry bearing, stair shaft wall. At each floor a steel beam bears on a bearing plate on the wall supporting hollow core precast plank. The beam stops 1" from the inside face of wall & the mason is planning to fill it in with mortar and/or maybe a soap block. Does this compromise the 2-hr rating?






RE: Masonry Bearing Wall Supporting Steel Beam (Compromised fire rating?)
I have read a few papers which have found that these things can be satisfactory.
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RE: Masonry Bearing Wall Supporting Steel Beam (Compromised fire rating?)
Clansman
If a builder has built a house for a man and has not made his work sound, and the house which he has built has fallen down and so caused the death of the householder, that builder shall be put to death." Code of Hammurabi, c.2040 B.C.
RE: Masonry Bearing Wall Supporting Steel Beam (Compromised fire rating?)
RE: Masonry Bearing Wall Supporting Steel Beam (Compromised fire rating?)
RE: Masonry Bearing Wall Supporting Steel Beam (Compromised fire rating?)
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