I sincerely appreciate everyone’s input! You’re great!
These I-beams are intended to be the members spanning the tops of two walls of a small building. There will be two purlins (@ L/3 & 2/3L) crossing over the tops of the I-beams which will carry the roof load. While I’m at the analysis, I...
The beams already exist and are being repurposed because of the cost of new replacements. Intuitively I know they’re strong enough for the new application. However, the beams are of a welded construction and I don’t know the previous loads the I-beams were designed for. So I thought it prudent...
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The bottom flange of my I beam is not attached to anything. The beam will span two walls and its attachment to them I’m considering to be simply supported.
My concern is the stress in the weld caused by the external applied loads. My beam is simply supported and I have no external applied shear. My apologies, after posting I realized my use of the term “transverse shear” is misleading and probably incorrect. I was referring to the internal...
To all,
Thank you for your responses!
Please forgive me, I was trying to keep my original posting brief without TMI.
The beam is on an incline with vertically downward transverse loading. I’ve accounted for both bending stress and axial stress (because of the incline). I’m aware of shear...
I have an I-beam that was fabricated by welding both flanges onto a web. Flanges and web were fabricated from strip steel. There are two fillet welds joining each flange to the web (one on each side of the web). I want to perform a stress analysis on the welds for my loading. Can anyone refer...
