Floor Girder Beam Span Table

A 2 2x10 can span 10 feet and so on.

Floor girder beam span table. Versa lam laminated veneer lumber lvl beams and headers eliminate twisting shrinking and splitting and deliver flatter quieter floors and structures. The widest span in the floor joist span table in part 2 of this tutorial module showed that floor joists can span 17 2 if they are 2 x 12s spaced 12 o c. True floor joist span calculations can only be made by a structural engineer or contractor. Table 9 1 in span tables for joists and rafters figure 5 gives a required compression value of 237 psi for a span of 16 feet and bearing length of 1 5 inches.

Use the span tables below to determine allowable lengths of joists and rafters based on size and standard design loads. Aitc beam capacity tables. Engineered wood products ewp lvl span and size charts. A double 2x12 beam can span 12 feet.

Aitc capacity tables provide the uniformly distributed load that a glued laminated timber beam can support based on beam size span and material properties. So the house dimensions will now be 24 x 13. You can also use the wood beam calculator from the american wood council website to determine maximum rafter and joist lengths. This sample table gives minimum floor joist sizes for joists spaced at 16 inches and 24 inches on center o c for 2 grade lumber with 10 pounds per square foot of dead load and 40 pounds of live load which is typical of normal residential construction.

All other data is available on page 121 of the 2012 international residential code. View size selection tables. These charts are for 30 pound per square foot snow load on the roof. Dimensional lumber deck beam span chart.

Our versa lam lvl is manufactured in either alexandria lena louisiana in eastern united states or in white city oregon for the western united states. Tables 7 12. Download a pdf tables 13 14. Listed are 46 tables based on common loading conditions for floor joists ceiling joists and rafters.

Numbers in blue are joist spans beam to beam or house to beam. View joist rafter tables. The tables permit a bearing length of up to 3 5 inches but since 1 5 is probably the worst case that you ll encounter for joist or rafter bearing it s a safe value. Simplified span tables for southern pine lumber and glued laminated timber glulam headers beams and girders.

Table specifications are provided with each table indicating conditions and assumptions used to calculate the loads. Tables providing size selections for various beam spans and loading combinations for southern pine dimension lumber and southern pine glued laminated timber are available for the following applications. Includes span tables for all load bearing locations and the number of jack studs. Span charts and 2012 irc building codes for girders and headers.