I design joists often for a couple of local fabricators, when the
quantity is too small for the big joist producers or their delivery time
is unacceptable. What Harold Sprague advised is true. There is a
cold-formed steel producer up here who produces a cold-rolled channel
with Vee-shaped holes in the web, which make it look like a joist, maybe
there is somebody who is closer and can make these. As for joist design,
if you need any help, pls let me know and contact me personally.
Gary
Andrew Kester, PE wrote:
> Gerald et al,
> The first thing I asked them is can we not use an off the shelf
> channel or WF if they are that desperate on time? It is a mezzanine
> but it is only spanning 12ft @ 2' o.c. I nearly laughed when they said
> they already suggested that but the client wants the "look of a steel
> joist". Now I play amateur architect all of the time, especially with
> some of the crap I see being built, but that takes the cake... I like
> exposed structure as much as any engineer, but an exposed 12K1 for
> your mezzanine is not exactly going to put you on the cover of an
> Architecture magazine, not even an honorable mention in MSC....
>
> So we have decided to design it as a "steel floor truss" and not use a
> SJI designation. We will put the live and dead loads we designed it
> for on the drawings, and it will exceed the same table value out of
> Vulcraft. Then we just follow normal AISC and FBC requirements. There
> is no big oversight on this project so nobody will care, as long as
> the EOR approves it. The fabricator has it drawn up already using
> pipes as webs and angles as chords. The pipe to angle weld looks a bit
> tricky as a flare groove weld, but this fabricator does some pretty
> tricky stuff. I am going to put a couple of rows of bottom chord
> bridging at 1/3 span points, even though it is a floor and I cannot
> come up with a good reason to brace the tension chord other than it
> gives me "warm fuzzies" as Scott says.
>
> Any input from anyone? Please CC me directly as I am on digest mode.
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew Kester, P.E.
> Principal/Project Manager
> ADK Structural Engineering, PLLC
> 1510 E. Colonial Drive, Suite 301
> Orlando, FL 32803
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