Question: Consider the floor framing plan shown below. This is the second floor of a four - story building. The design floor live load is 8

Consider the floor framing plan shown below. This is the second floor of a four-story building. The design floor live load is 80psf. The design roof live load is 20psf. The structure has a flat roof.
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Assume that the floor between Beams B1 and B2 is supported directly by these two beams only (not by Girders G1 and G2, i.e., the floor is a "one-way" slab). Beam B1 has a self-weight of 36 plf. The floor slab consists of a 5 in.-thick, normalweight, reinforced concrete slab (unit weight =150pcf). An additional floor dead load of 10 psf is specified to account for the weight of suspended utilities and fixtures. As an exterior beam, B1 must also support one story of a 4 in.-thick brick wall facade. Assume that the brick wall weighs 10lbs per inch of wall thickness per square foot of wall surface area. The height of each story is 14ft. Perform the following tasks for Beam B1:
a) Compute the tributary area.
b) Draw a free-body diagram of the beam that includes all the dead loads that act on the beam.
Repeat Problem 1 assuming the floor is supported on all four sides (B1, B2, G1, G2), and reinforced in both directions (i.e. the floor is a "two-way" slab).
For the rest of the problems, assume one-way framing throughout the structure. Perform the following tasks for Girder G2:
a) Compute the tributary area
b) Compute the influence area
c) Draw a free-body diagram of the girder showing only the live loads that act on the girder (use live-load reduction if allowable).
Compute the total live load (in lbs) that must be resisted by the first story of Column C1. Use live-load reduction where allowed.
Consider the floor framing plan shown below. This

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