Steel

Beam with web openings to AISC Design Guide 2

Web openings in steel and composite W beams, rectangular or circular, with or without bars: moment-shear interaction, tees, proportions, welds, and where the opening may sit, AISC Design Guide 2.

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ILX Calcs editor for a beam with web openings calculation: inputs, status, live checks and the drawing

What you get

From the inputs to a finished beam with web openings calculation

The applicable checks, step by step

Every check to AISC Design Guide 2 with its equation, the values that go into it, the result and the code section, and the governing case up front. Results update as you type.

A calculation report a reviewer can follow

Inputs, load combinations, every check with its result and reference, and the governing case, in a clear PDF with your title block.

Drawings

Where the calculation has a shape to draw: elevations, sections and the diagrams, on a sheet with your title block, as PDF or DXF.

Your units, your method

US or metric units at any time, LRFD or ASD where the code offers both; the report follows.

Verification

How the beam with web openings is tested

13worked examples
82values compared
78match
4documented differences, each explained

Against published examples and tables, on every change. The method and the sources.

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