structural steel shapes
 

structural steel shapes
has anyone ever heard of a w14x17.2?
i have a set of building plans from 1968 and i believe one of the beams being called out is a w14x17.2.
i was wondering if this was a shape that used to be available or if anyone has an input on what is being called out please let me know.
i have attached the sheet where this beam is called out. it is the beam spanning from grid 6 to grid 9.
i can't take credit for this, although the drawing gave a big hint. i found this on the internet:
according to page 1-4 of aisc's "manual" (6th edition), 14b17.2 is classified as a "light beam", produced by jones & laughlin steel corp. from pages 1-22 & 1-23 for a designation 14x4b at 17.2 plf, section properties are listed as follows:

ixx = 147.3, sxx = 21.0, rx = 5.40, a = 5.05
iyy = 2.65, syy = 1.32, ry = 0.72
flange avg. thickness = 0.25"
web thickness = 0.1875"


hope this helps,
dave k. adams, p.e.
lane engineers, inc.
thank you dave, that helps a lot.
neat! how did you get the file attachment?
thanks, raf
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