RattlinBog
Structural
I'm having a corroded beam replaced and designed shoring to temporarily pick up two other beams that frame into the beam to be replaced. Contractor calls me--the shoring beam is in place but there is an unanticipated 3/4" - 7/8" gap between bottom of shoring beam and top of beams to be supported. (This area has been modified in the past and top of steel was possibly changed.) Contractor was done for the day and won't get back to it until Monday.
Attached is a shim & bolt connection I came up with and sent to contractor for now. They'll have to do some field drilling, but that's not too big a deal with the mag drill they have. Has anyone had a similar issue and came up with a better/easier detail?
My other thought was to butt up a couple angles to both beams and weld (see attachment 2 in next post) but I believe that would be a weak connection with bending in the welds. I didn't think about it much, but I didn't like it. I was trying to come up with something similar to "hold-down angles" for column uplift (see Blodgett Ch. 3.3) but those require bolts in the horizontal leg.
Could I have done something more efficient?
Thank you
Attached is a shim & bolt connection I came up with and sent to contractor for now. They'll have to do some field drilling, but that's not too big a deal with the mag drill they have. Has anyone had a similar issue and came up with a better/easier detail?
My other thought was to butt up a couple angles to both beams and weld (see attachment 2 in next post) but I believe that would be a weak connection with bending in the welds. I didn't think about it much, but I didn't like it. I was trying to come up with something similar to "hold-down angles" for column uplift (see Blodgett Ch. 3.3) but those require bolts in the horizontal leg.
Could I have done something more efficient?
Thank you
