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  1. studentin9

    Unbraced length for Continuous Beam

    Thank you all for your responses, you have been a great help to figuring this out :)
  2. studentin9

    Unbraced length for Continuous Beam

    DaveAtkins, Thank you for your input. For this specific problem, the beams are an part of an existing structure and we are placing new beams and columns that simply lie under the existing beam structure bottom flange. These are really weak beams (W12x14's) and are failing extremely with...
  3. studentin9

    Unbraced length for Continuous Beam

    Hey all, I wanted to reach out about a question for continuous beams and where to place bracing. Reading into AISC steel manual, I see they have a formula for Cb that relates to an unbraced length (C-F1-5) for a continuous beam but I can not find code describing how far away bracing should be...

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