Frame of steel beams

[IngvarW]

Hi. We are designing a new house where one gable will have a lot of windows. Since it is two stories high, the entire gable is quite sensitive to wind and the architect suggests that there will be problems with wind loads from the sides. Inside the house, there are no inner walls nearby that can stabilize the whole structure.
One suggestion is to build iron beam frames into the wall that are then screwed into the concrete slab. Does anyone have experience with similar solutions?? 8)

Best regards, Ingo

 

[KarlXII]

Another suggestion could be to build with concrete or timber. It constitutes a completely self-supporting structure.

 

[Stefan]

KarlXII: is the clock wrong or do you need sleeping pills ;D

/S

 

[Yo]

You should see how tired Karl XII can be at work. Suspect that his circadian rhythm is different from others ;D

 

[KarlXII]

Lies and damned slander!!

I've come down with a bout of the extremely unpleasant winter vomiting bug, and I've developed some strange sleeping habits for the moment.

 

[General_Failure]

Bless you!

 

[KarlXII]

Thank you GF, but if you have the winter vomiting bug, you don't dare sneeze ;D

 

[IngvarW]

Thanks for the input. Now we have received a construction calculation for the frames and they are of model hemske in two different dimensions HEA 280 and HEA160. Does anyone have good prices for that? Right now I have found maybe normal prices totaling 47,000 SEK and then someone has to transport them there and weld it all together...

Regards, Ingo

 

[IngvarW]

After some discussion/questioning with the constructor, it turns out that it can be solved in a simpler way with "only" 4 steel pillars straight up from the slab in the middle of the house. However, we have not yet received the drawing for that construction, so it's still not 100%.

It would have been unfortunate to spend the extra buffer already on the construction itself; it's more fun to spend it on more festive bathtubs, mixers, ship decks, or something like that.

If anyone is looking for sellers of Handelsstål, as it is so beautifully called, I have an email list of about ten companies.

Regards, I

 

[frasse]

We have a similar solution, no load-bearing interior walls but a beam system that supports the whole structure. Standing HEA where they can be hidden and pipes that will be visible, as well as horizontal HEA built into the joists. The engineer designed welded joints, but it will probably be screw/bolt joints instead to facilitate assembly. The roof trusses rest on glulam. We cast pressure plates into the concrete slab on which everything rests. Remember to calculate the pressure loads, as it results in quite substantial point loads.

 

[IngvarW]

OK, our intermediate floor and roof beams largely rest on a Leca wall that runs through the entire house. The standing beams in the middle are only for lateral stresses in the form of wind. Thank you anyway, regards Ingvar.