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house project with steel slab and walls

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davidserero

Aerospace
May 21, 2003
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I am looking for a structural engineer to help mr to evaluate the possibility this house design I am orking on.
It is a small house with 2 layers of stainless steel slab and walls with no beams and no columns. The structure will be a double folded sheet of metal. Does anyone of you have experience on calculating this type of structure. What could be the span of a sandwich of two 1/2 inch thick steel plates ?
Thanks
david
 
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you can check the moment-factor in mechanics handbook.
Or, if the slab is narrow and long, you can simply consider the slab as many beam which width is 1".
 
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