Steel Roof Joist Design

All vulcraft joists and joist girders are designed and manufactured in accordance to the exacting specifications of the steel joist institute.

Steel roof joist design.

Load table pdfs are best viewed in adobe acrobat reader. These concentrated loads often include standard steel joists that are in turn supporting steel roof or floor deck. In addition to traditional designs we produce bowstring arched scissor double pitched and single pitched k joists. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design.

Joists and joist girders canam buildings specializes in the manufacture of steel joists in a variety of shapes sizes and geometries. Joists are separated by type and designated by letters. They are custom engineered to suit the design of each building. Continuing on from part 3.

Includes steel girders and steel columns with clear span widths from 10 through 100 available eave heights of 8 through 30. Fill out the joist investigation form. The k and kcs joists are used for shorter span conditions where lighter loads are required. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design.

Pre welded clips on 2 centers for wood or steel secondary framing. K kcs lh dlh and slh. These welded steel products are used to support a building s roof and floors. Our latest catalogs are listed below.

Joist girders serve as primary framing members with simple spans to support concentrated loads for a roof or floor system. Sc series trusses are available as a gabled symmetrical or a gabled a symmetrical design. The use of a system of steel joists and steel deck is a solution of choice resulting in significant savings. Download our steel joists and steel deck load tables to facilitate the design of your next project featuring new millennium products.

Careful attention must be paid to design of structural members and connection details of trusses since their failure can be catastrophic both in terms of loss of life and economy. The most widespread alternative for roof construction in nigeria is the use of trusses of which timber and steel are the primary choice of materials. Vulcraft provides a number of resources to help you efficiently and successfully specify steel joists and deck. Here we have a wood framed gable roof.

The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial.