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eliasuk98
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hi, not sure if I am posting in the right section, had a good look through the search option but cannot find what I am looking for, probably because I am being stupid..
im working on some simple beam calculations, I am a studying architecture, however I am trying to get my head round load factors..
if i have a 2 storey building and i want to remove a facing wall say 5.0 in length this is how i would calculate the load on the beam
Dead load
1. area of wall it will carry in this case 5m x 3m high wall x 4.4kn/m2 (load for 240mm brick wall with plaster.
2. floor 5m x 2.5 (half of floor distribution onto beam) x 2.05kn/m2
3. roof 5m x 2m x 1.19kn/m2
then the imposed loads on the roof
my question is, I am trying to input this data onto CSC Tedds calculation software and I am confused as to what loading information i should input .. i would assume i would put total dead and total imposed loads by multiplying the width by height by load of material which i have tried..
however it fails the beam size that has been approved manually. i believe I am doing something wrong with the data input as Tedds has load factors of 1.6 and 1.4 which i did not use any load factors when working out manually.. can someone guide me as to what the load factors for dead and imposed means? do i need to use these if i have worked out the total udl with the example above?
thank you so much in advance
im working on some simple beam calculations, I am a studying architecture, however I am trying to get my head round load factors..
if i have a 2 storey building and i want to remove a facing wall say 5.0 in length this is how i would calculate the load on the beam
Dead load
1. area of wall it will carry in this case 5m x 3m high wall x 4.4kn/m2 (load for 240mm brick wall with plaster.
2. floor 5m x 2.5 (half of floor distribution onto beam) x 2.05kn/m2
3. roof 5m x 2m x 1.19kn/m2
then the imposed loads on the roof
my question is, I am trying to input this data onto CSC Tedds calculation software and I am confused as to what loading information i should input .. i would assume i would put total dead and total imposed loads by multiplying the width by height by load of material which i have tried..
however it fails the beam size that has been approved manually. i believe I am doing something wrong with the data input as Tedds has load factors of 1.6 and 1.4 which i did not use any load factors when working out manually.. can someone guide me as to what the load factors for dead and imposed means? do i need to use these if i have worked out the total udl with the example above?
thank you so much in advance