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[Closed] What is the technical term for? (Structural Engineers may apply)

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The perimeter upstand beam in a concrete (or other) frame which helps support the edge of a floor slab.

Its a multi-storey building with ribbon windows. The wall below the windows is part of the structure. If I cut this, the floor will probably collapse, but I can't remember what its called!

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Posted : 03/10/2013 10:38 am
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:cue lots of frantic googling by people who are not structural engineers:


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 10:39 am
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Ring beam?


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 10:40 am
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Not ring-beam. It has finally come to me however. Kudos to the first to correctly guess!


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 10:45 am
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a sleeper wall?


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 10:56 am
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stickyoutybitthefloorysittysoney ??

(That's a guess, i'm not a structural engineer btw 😉


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 11:36 am
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Was going to say ring beam.


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 11:38 am
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[i]Perimeter Upstand Beam [/i]


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 11:40 am
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Jim Beam?


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 11:40 am
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From conversations recently on something I'm working on they're apparently also very inefficient compared to a downstand beam.
We might be going for a fat slab to gain 350mm per floor (overall depth).


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 11:41 am
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it'll be something like flange, gusset or clunge.
you know the dirty mind structural engineers have


 
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member is a good one to get in as well.


 
Posted : 03/10/2013 11:42 am