Wood wall used as a beam
Wood wall used as a beam
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I keep getting this suggestion from an architect to sheath both sides of a wall to help transfer the loads around an opening. I keep telling him that this is just a wall and trying to figure out if this "composite beam" would work for the high loads I have would likely be time wasting. He keeps pushing it so I'm going to run something but I was wondering if anybody had done anything like this before. Looks like a moment of inertia issue and shear flow issue. How do you go about figuring the moment of inertia though for a beam with holes all in it (16" on center studs so that 16" space is just a hole in my web essentially)?






RE: Wood wall used as a beam
The apa put out a publication on plywood box beams that I've attached here.
RE: Wood wall used as a beam
RE: Wood wall used as a beam
RE: Wood wall used as a beam
RE: Wood wall used as a beam