Here in jersey, inspectors are now more professional than 15-20 years ago. . . they seem to follow the code rather than their own preference. In one town, the building inspector insisted on 3 1/2" min. concrete slabs in crawl spaces, even though the code does not require any slab and in every...
Sorry for the brain lock. I think I have confused the categories. Breyer had put it this way: "As a general guide, shear is critical on relatively short, heavily loaded spans." I had taken critical to refer to short vs. long spans, rather than referring to shear vs. bending or deflection...
At the risk of sounding like. . .
Understand intuitively why a short header with a heavy concentrated load would fail in horizontal shear as compared to a longer span, and that shear is more critical than bending on short beams.
However, the equation for max. horizontal shear stress: 1.5...
Hokie66,
I'm an architect but when registering for the forum it did not have that category but I do spec so I chose that. Find the program saves time when viewing options between steel, wood and flitch plates.
But I did go to Tech. . . Go Hokies!
Thanks JAE for the reply,
Loading is Live loads @ 40PSF for 1st floor, 30 PSF for 2nd and 10 PSF for limited storage attic; figured 10 PSF per floor for dead loads. Program is StrucCalc which has been useful for residential calculations.
Any thoughts on why length isn't factored in for shear...
Client wants to open up an interior bearing wall in a home. Was checking on the new concentrated loads on the existing house girder using a software program. Conditions are pretty standard: 24' deep house, (3) 2 x 10 center girder supporting First Floor, Second Floor & storage Attic with support...
