got this from “some other mag’s” newsletter:
Span calculator for wood products: http://www.awc.org/calculators/span/calc/timbercalcstyle.asp
Great write up of how to apply it: http://www.awc.org/technical/spantables/tutorial.htm
Found these links on: http://www.awc.org/technical/
Edited 2/3/2004 5:35:03 PM ET by SPHAUGH
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That's good in that it has more species than Spancalc
but it is not a beam calculator. It is a rafter and joist calculator.
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Ooops. Misleading title...I'm old enough to know better. Good call Pif
In what sense is a joist not a beam?
I think Piffin's vernacular would be a beam carries the joists.
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both horizontal structural. Joist minor/ beam major.
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