Steel Roof Joist Design

Joists are separated by type and designated by letters.

Steel roof joist design. The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. Joists are custom made structural steel components used to support the floors or roof of a building. The k and kcs joists are used for shorter span conditions where lighter loads are required. Includes steel girders and steel columns with clear span widths from 10 through 100 available eave heights of 8 through 30.

These welded steel products are used to support a building s roof and floors. The use of a system of steel joists and steel deck is a solution of choice resulting in significant savings. All vulcraft joists and joist girders are designed and manufactured in accordance to the exacting specifications of the steel joist institute. Fill out the joist investigation form.

K kcs lh dlh and slh. Download our steel joists and steel deck load tables to facilitate the design of your next project featuring new millennium products. In addition to traditional designs we produce bowstring arched scissor double pitched and single pitched k joists. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design.

Each catalog can be viewed online downloaded or ordered where you will receive a hard copy in a few days. Our latest catalogs are listed below. Here we have a wood framed gable roof. Load table pdfs are best viewed in adobe acrobat reader.

Vulcraft provides a number of resources to help you efficiently and successfully specify steel joists and deck. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. In depth catalogs feature the latest information and are available in convenient interactive pdf format. Continuing on from part 3.

These concentrated loads often include standard steel joists that are in turn supporting steel roof or floor deck. Pre welded clips on 2 centers for wood or steel secondary framing. Joist girders serve as primary framing members with simple spans to support concentrated loads for a roof or floor system. Joists and joist girders canam buildings specializes in the manufacture of steel joists in a variety of shapes sizes and geometries.

They are custom engineered to suit the design of each building.