Steel connection help 1

[AlmostPE]

I do mostly residential so I dont detail a lot of steel connection. If you have a steel hip beam supported by a steel column 1/3 of the span. How do you support it? Do you put a steel stand off so the plates for the connections are flat? Or do you just bevel cut the column and put a plate in an angle? I am sure both ways will work. I just want to know how it is usually done.

 

[msquared48]

I just make the top plate of the column parallel to the flange of the hip. Dependingon the connection to the hip, the roof joists should be able to redistribute any horizontal component of any sliding force back to the roof diaphragm.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

 

[AlmostPE]

good point msquared48. Thanks! Thats what I wanted to do but afraid maybe it is too hard to set the beam onto the column. Thanks!