I'm currently sizing a beam to take out a load bearing wall in my own home (to open up between the kitchen and dining room) and have a couple questions about how you size for deflection limits when removing an existing wall, on new construction we size for live load deflection as the dead load...
I am currently making a spreadsheet to determine the capacity of lifting lugs using the processes laid out by David T. Ricker in his article "Design and Construction of Lifting Beams" published by AISC in 1991. In the article he states the 4 failure modes to check are: 1. Tension Failure at the...