Balustrade moment on I-Steel beam 1

[Redtelis]

Hi,

What check would you normally carry out to a steel I-Section beam when a balustrade will be fixed to the side of a steel beam web?
Obviously, the applied horizontal load to the balustrade will transform a moment to the steel beam. Is this a torsion check of the beam maybe? From my understanding, as the balustrade bottom fixing is connected to the side of the i-section beam (web), it will try to rotate it. On the other hand, the floor plate is a steel mesh with diagonal horizontal bracing to tie and restrain the I-Section beams. Can we argue that the applied moment will be resisted by the diagonal bracing?

Thanks

 

[dik]

I was just using the 10' as extreme spacing... I was thinking this was a bridge. If bar grating can be 5' or 6' centres to accommodate the guardrail posts, too... If bar grating, I can see the need for the x-bracing. The stiffeners should line up with the small beams and the connection of the small beams to the big ones at distances of 5' or 6' does stiffen the system up torsionally.

I don't know what is meant by steel mesh... expanded metal sheet? If so, the 'purlins' can be at 2' or 3' centres (channels or angles, maybe) and the handrails at 6' centres in line with the purlins.

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-Dik