BurgoEng
Structural
- Apr 7, 2006
- 68
I have a 6-story steel beam(&joist) with concrete slab and masonry bearing wall residential building with 2 levels of parking at bottom floors.
We are not considering composite action for the steel beams, and the concrete slab will not have a metal deck. I would like to use shear studs at the top flange of the steel beams to provide the lateral support required to keep Lb<Lu. Everything I have read about shear studs is in consideration of having the beams become composite, or to transfer shear (which I also want for transfering lateral wind loads through the diaphragm that is the floor slab), but I can't find anything specifically for shear studs used only to provide lateral support for KL/r, etc....
If I was to simply provide 3/4"studs @ 4ft, is that saying that the beams would be having a laterally unbraced length of 4ft?
We are not considering composite action for the steel beams, and the concrete slab will not have a metal deck. I would like to use shear studs at the top flange of the steel beams to provide the lateral support required to keep Lb<Lu. Everything I have read about shear studs is in consideration of having the beams become composite, or to transfer shear (which I also want for transfering lateral wind loads through the diaphragm that is the floor slab), but I can't find anything specifically for shear studs used only to provide lateral support for KL/r, etc....
If I was to simply provide 3/4"studs @ 4ft, is that saying that the beams would be having a laterally unbraced length of 4ft?