Tie-Beam to Wood Beam
Tie-Beam to Wood Beam
(OP)
I have a 1 story home with conventionally framed roof sitting on a old brick wall with a tie-beam on top running around the perimeter of the home. They want to put a 10' opening in the wall to a new addition. I have no idea what is in this tie beam as far as reinforcing to see if it can span the new opening. To make it easier to construct I was thinking about designing a wood beam to span this instead of going back with a reinforced beam or lintel. Im concerned about the shear line loads adequately transferring in and out of the different materials and what a good connection would look like. Should this even be a concern as long as the shear gets transferred? or should I just spec out a concrete beam/lintel, dowel in, and call it a day?






RE: Tie-Beam to Wood Beam
RE: Tie-Beam to Wood Beam
RE: Tie-Beam to Wood Beam
And respectfully, what size wood beam were you thinking if a steel angle wouldn’t work?
RE: Tie-Beam to Wood Beam
I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.
RE: Tie-Beam to Wood Beam
This was an exterior shear wall that will now become an interior shear wall with the added addition. Yes, I was talking about the shear that would be getting transferred into the wall segments.If we removed the tie beam in the opening and added a wood beam, would just adding a simple strap from wood beam to existing tie-beam be suffice to transfer the shear into the next wall segment?