IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Designing Buildings calling for additions to its page on ‘Types of Beams’.
DB writes:
Beams are structural elements that resist loads applied laterally to their axis. They typically transfer loads imposed along their length to their endpoints where the loads are transferred to walls, columns, foundations, and so on.
Beams may be:
- Simply supported: that is, they are supported at both ends but are free to rotate.
- Fixed: Supported at both ends and fixed to resist rotation.
- Overhanging: overhanging their supports at one or both ends.
- Continuous: extending over more than two supports.
- Cantilevered: supported only at one end. See Cantilever for more information.
They may be statically determinate, that is, their reactions can be solved using equilibrium conditions, or they can be statically indeterminate.
Historically, beams were formed from timber, but they may also be manufactured from steel or concrete or they may be composite constructions…..
Common beams (not comprehensive, please add to this list)…
Read more and add to the list….
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