Steel Beam to Steel Beam at Steel Column Residential Connection

My only suggestion would be to make it a bolted cap plate connection.

reverbz said:

I'm leaning a metal plate on top of the column the beam can sit on and be welded to. Would you do something else?

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Agreed. I would do the same in case if the beams are at the top storey . In case of mid storeys i would prefer to keep the columns continuous .
One of the details ( in my labtop) ;




I just write ( GOOD AND BAD DETAILING) and searched the web. One of the outcomes ,

Weld first beam on top of column, cope flange of second beam and weld web to web to first beam or add a clip angle. That is how most are done around here.

This would want to be a bolted cap plate connection around here too.

Depending on the relative depths of the two beams (do tell), the beam to beam connection might make sense as a single plate shear tab of some sort. The shear tab then pulls double, or even triple duty:

1) Beam to beam connection.

2) Rollover prevention for the continuous beam.

3) Robust load path for any load coming in from above.

XR250 said:

Weld first beam on top of column, cope flange of second beam and weld web to web to first beam or add a clip angle. That is how most are done around here.

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Aside from potentially bolting rather than welded these connection, is there any reasonable alternative to this detail? I can't think of one.

I guess you could provide a seated connection for the perp. beam, although this seems like a worse detail.

I usually do knife plates from steel beam to column connections in residential projects, but a sketch here with some sizes would be helpful.

If it's a continuous beam over the column with a transverse beam into the side of the cont. beam then what XR and Koot mention is probably the only choice.