In typical steel beam pockets into concrete or masonry walls, the void is generally grouted solid. AISC commentary mentions that web crippling equations are generally conservative because the tests used to derive the formulas were conducted on bare steel beams without the expected beneficial...
Lately, I've been designing steel connections on a few projects. I've seen several typical details from engineers indicating full depth transverse stiffeners to be provided in the web of beams supporting gravity columns from above, regardless of load magnitude. Transverse stiffeners are typical...
A podium building (4 wood over 2 concrete) that I am assisting in designing requires a thermal break roughly through the center of the structure due to the size of building. For lateral design, if there is a thermal break I would typically design each portion of the building as a separate...
