Floor Joist And Beam Design

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.

Floor joist and beam design.

Use the span tables below to determine allowable lengths of joists and rafters based on size and standard design loads. Size members for a specific spacing depth or the best economical fit. Our floor joist beam can span a maximum of 13. Both stretch across long spans.

Though joists may be any size that you desire using typical floor joist and beam specifications ensures that you can find hardware to fit the joists and that the floor provides adequate support for furniture and other items in a room. So we now have adequately sized floor joists and an adequately sized floor joist beam for our 24 x 13 house. Both the 2009 irc and the dca6 09 allow 2 southern pine 2x10s to span 13 feet 1 inch at 24 inches on center at a design load of 50 psf. Click here for background information regarding design values.

Whether you re an architect engineer or design professional sizing joists beams posts or studs forte web software performs member calculations and identifies solutions for the conditions and geometry you specify. The load carried by joists and beams is applied at a right angle to the length of the span. You can also use the wood beam calculator from the american wood council website to determine maximum rafter and joist lengths. View joist rafter tables.

True floor joist span calculations can only be made by a structural engineer or contractor. Floor joists or beams provide the below surface support for the wood subfloor of a room. That is beams and joists are building parts that lay flat rather than stand up. Nine joists will be needed for the 16 foot width.

Another way to say that beams and joists hold up weight pushing down along the long straight side. In the table above the widest floor beam span for 12 of supported floor joists is 14 7 if using a 5 ply 2 x 12. Listed are 46 tables based on common loading conditions for floor joists ceiling joists and rafters. Therefore joists may run from wall to wall wall to beam or beam to beam depending on the size of the area they span and the structural design of the home.

Simplified maximum span tables for selected visual and mechanical grades of southern pine lumber in sizes 2 4 thru 2 12.