Ok, ok. I give. Here is what's been happening since the last time I posted. It's sort of neat the way it worked out because each day I would learn something new from independent research and almost the same day someone on here would bring up the same topic. (Difficulty transporting beams that...
Hey Guys,
Thanks for the replies- I appreciate you taking the time. Some of the replies were very helpful, and I am looking more into the suggestions offered there. I'll let you know how that turns out.
However, I am not sure that I agree with the "you must have a real structural engineer do...
Ok- first mystery solved... It looks like a W27x84 beam will deflect around 9".
Any good recommendations for references that would help me figure out how to properly distribute the load over multiple beams? I am assuming it is not just "divide by 5"....
The other thing that has become clear is...
BWAHAHAHA! I'm an idiot... I just caught the inches vs. feet thing.
Ok, lemme go try again. I knew something was awry. I guess it doesn't pay to be pencil-whipping in the middle of the night. :)
Thanks BA,
I may end up doing that, but I am really just sort of stumped about how the calculator that I posted could be that far off. While I'm not a structural engineer, that engineering side of me wants to know what went wrong when calculations are so far off...
Thanks,
Cody
Hey Mike,
Thanks again for the quick response. I really appreciate the input. My thoughts were just to see how much one beam could support, and then work towards doing the calculations for multiple beams. However, when I saw that, at least according to those preliminary calculations, just one...
Hey Mike,
Thanks for responding. I was worried that this would cause some confusion. I actually did the calculations for both the 27" and the 10". When I saw how little the 27" deflected in intial calculations, I decided to go to something I thought was obviously too small as a sanity check...
Hey Guys,
First time posting here because it's the first time I've ever had to solve this sort of problem. I have some land that we just bought that has a ravine blocking the entrance. I am designing/building a very simple beam bridge to cross the ravine that consists of 5 W-Type I-Beams...
