Flitch Plate Beams at Rio Truss


Flitch Plate Beams

Rio Truss LP offers LVL -Flitch Plate Beams to carry a larger load than a solid wood beam with the same depth and span. A flitch-plate beam is a composite beam--a plate of steel sandwiched between two wood joists, (this can be extended by utilizing multiple layers of timber and steel plating to accomplish the needed result).


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As strong as steel I-beam for a lower cost.

Usually, they are held together with specifically designed screws or bolts arranged in a specified pattern on the face of the beam, connecting all layers into a single unified beam.

If a building is limited in the depth of the girders and joists, Flitch Plate Beams are used because a comparatively shallow flitch-plate girder could carry the same load as a solid wood beam of much greater depth. It provides most of the strength of a steel I-beam at a lower cost and allowed attachment of other structural members using ordinary wood-framing methods while creating structural integrity.



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Some samples of our recent work, manufactured in our production plant in McAllen, TX.

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