Southern Pine Floor Joist Span Tables

These tables can also be used to determine deck joist span.
Southern pine floor joist span tables. For southern pine. Effective june 1 2013. Span calculator for wood joists and rafters also available for the android os. Span ft 1 5 2 0 2 5 3 0 3 5 2 30 22 18 15 13 4 59 44 36 30 25 6 89 67 53 44 38 8 119 89 71 59 51 10 148 111.
Rafter and joist span faq. Maximum spans in feet inches. Simplified maximum span tables for selected visual and mechanical grades of southern pine lumber in sizes 2 4 thru 2 12. View joist rafter tables.
Table 12 wet service floor joists mc 19 40 psf live load 10 psf dead load 360 deflection. A companion supplement to span tables for joists and rafters design values for joists and rafters tabulates allowable bending fb and modulus of elasticity e design values for visually graded and mechanically graded dimension lumber. Of visually graded southern pine dimension lumber. From this page users can also download sfpa s updated publication southern pine maximum spans for joists rafters that includes all 46 tables design.
This edition has been updated to the 2015 nds design values supplement changes include new design values for southern pine and mixed southern pine design values. For example in the joist span table below the highlighted cell shows that 2 x 8 southern yellow pine joists that have a grade of 2 and are spaced 24 apart can have a maximum span of 10 feet 3 inches 10 3 if designing for a live load of 40 lbs ft 2. Span tables for joists and rafters 3 american wood council table 9 1 required compression perpendicular to grain design values f c in pounds per square inch for simple span joists and rafters with uniform load. Listed are 46 tables based on common loading conditions for floor joists ceiling joists and rafters.
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