Don’t the beam calculators require live loads and dead loads as inputs?
If you know those values, alongside spans etc then it’s basically a lookup table and if between sizes, then size up.
ABCs for a Structural Engineer, but easy to misunderstand and get wrong for the everyman (no offence intended).
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Don’t the beam calculators require live loads and dead loads as inputs?
If you know those values, alongside spans etc then it’s basically a lookup table and if between sizes, then size up.
ABCs for a Structural Engineer, but easy to misunderstand and get wrong for the everyman (no offence intended).