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To what degree do the IRC prescriptive codes including span tables account for "point loads" or "concentrated loads":
On headers?
On girders?
On headers?
On girders?
Since the tables are titled in the following manner:fatboy said:Wasn't going to post, as it may constitute performing engineering, but I've always figured the tables were based on uniform (sorta) loads.
Are you saying that the water heater actually fell?Uncle Bob said:George,You stated;
"It takes a lot of equipment to make an engineer concerned. "
Find an engineer; your configuration and calculations are not even close to the required support in my senario. And your weight approximations is also way off.
Uncle Bob
Really? Excessive bending is a structural failure. Your opinion above is one I have to fight daily . . . it doesn't have to fall down and kill someone to be considered a structural failure.GHRoberts said:Are you saying that the water heater actually fell?The fact that it did not fall indicates that engineering would show that the load (your estimate or mine) was properly supported.
I don't see that as getting into anything fuzzy like workmanlike construction, just part of the requirement to trace the load path.even headers... we look at the jack and king studs at each window.. we need to follow that load to the foundation.
When checking the load path on a raised floor with a rim joist how many stop at the floor plate or do you require additional reinforcment at the rim board where the point load is bearing.just part of the requirement to trace the load path.