Beam Bending Spreadsheet or Program
Beam Bending Spreadsheet or Program
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I've seen a lot of beam spreadsheets out there but I am wondering if anyone has one that also deals with lateral torsional buckling for sawn lumber and glulam beams. CL < 1.0






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RE: Beam Bending Spreadsheet or Program
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I'm thinking a distributed uniform load over a continuous two span beam would be a common problem encountered as well as an distributed uniform load on a beam with an overhang.
RE: Beam Bending Spreadsheet or Program
To Do List:
1.) Add more common load cases as given in the AWC Design Aid #6
2.) Add the rest of the sawn lumber species from the Table 4A NDS Supplement
3.) Complete the programming for Glulam and SCL options.
4.) Add timbers 5x5 and larger and reference design values from Table 4D
5.) Add reference design values for Glulam from Table 5A
6.) Add reference design values for SCL from manufacturer's literature
4.) Add new features as requested.
The PDF output is now working for dimensional sawn lumber. At some point I might configure it so that within the client control panel an engineering firm can customize the title block of the PDF report so it reflects their company information and logo as well as remove the disclaimer at the end of the report, then it might have some real world use for other engineers.
RE: Beam Bending Spreadsheet or Program
Note, that any one of the applied forces can be input as zero so the actual load cases are quite large with these additional three configurations.
These 3 load cases will encompass the following load cases from the AWC Design Aid #6:
18,20,21, 22, 27,28, 29,30, 31,32
the current load cases cover the AWC load case 1 and 7.
The different span lengths must be greater than zero. The bearing lengths will be assumed the same for all supports.
RE: Beam Bending Spreadsheet or Program
RE: Beam Bending Spreadsheet or Program
I've tested the glulam option against a number of sample problems from "Design of Wood Structures ASD/LRFD", so far it is giving the correct answers, however further testing will be required.
I do have a few issues with the drop down menus not sticking when one hits the back button on their browser, I'm still working on this.