Steel Beam Supporting Cavity Wall Detail

Typically when making an opening in a cavity wall two steel beams are used with separate steel beams supporting the inner and outer leaves.

Steel beam supporting cavity wall detail.

Plan area of bonded masonry supporting steel beam to be greater than or equal to 0 1m. Installation of the following steel beams is carried out. Steel beam end bearings to be located on substantial load bearing masonry walls or piers. It would be inserted just above the line of the lintel and an end plate would connect back to the steel beam.

1no 203 x 178 x 23 ub 5m. Walls that face driven rain are particularly vulnerable to water penetration. Supporting masonry to comply with eurocode 6 or bs 5628. If you install one large steel that picks up a double skin wall you should also install a cavity tray above it.

Loads steel beams with suspended plates can be used figure 4. 3 end of beam fixed to a column or a beam. Ends of beams can be laterally restrained using one of the following methods. The traditional approach used when two steel beams are provided to support a cavity wall has been to design the beams to each carry half the total load and then connect them with pipe spacers and bolts even when the loading to each beam was not equal.

The bearing length at each end of the lintel should be at least 4 inches. A steel hanger formed from a 120 x 120 x 10 rsa was designed to sit within the internal leaf of the cavity wall. The horizontal leg should be at least 1 2 inches wide to support a nominal 4 inch wythe of masonry adequately. T able of c ontents c hapter 1 m asonry c avity w all d etails s hear c onnected c hapter 2 m asonry c avity w all d etails a djustable t ies c hapter 3 b rick v eneered s teed s tud b ackup w all d etails s hear c onnected c hapter 4 b rick v eneered s teel s tud b ackup w all d etails s lotted t ies c hapter 5 s ingle w ythe l oadbearing m asonry w all d etails c hapter 6 m.

1no 203 x 178 x 23 ub 3 5m. Steel angles should be a minimum of 1 4 inch thick. 1no 203 x 203 x 46 ub 3 4 this unit ties into the steel box frame structural props remain in place to support the steel beams. Openings in concrete masonry.

Essentially your large steel prevents the natural gravitational passage of water. 2 end of beam fixed to a masonry wall. These supports are loaded onto the existing concrete subfloor providing good stability for the props during the curing process for the rsj steel beams. The minimum end bearing length at supports to be 100mm.