×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Interior Cold-Form Steel Partition Horizontal Deflection

Interior Cold-Form Steel Partition Horizontal Deflection

Interior Cold-Form Steel Partition Horizontal Deflection

(OP)
Considering 5 psf wind, what horizontal deflection criteria is recommended for interior CFS stud walls with a gypsum and plaster finish.

A general contractor has a steeel stud program, apparently from Dietrich, that allows him to have 6" 20 gage x 27'-0" studs at 16" oc, using L/120.  For gypsum finishes, I have always considered L/360.  Is that the vertical deflection criteria?

Please advise ... Thank you ...

RE: Interior Cold-Form Steel Partition Horizontal Deflection

For plaster finishes, L/360 has been used successfully for many years.  L/120 would be considered wholly unacceptable.

Besides, you are talking about a 2.7 inch deflection.  Not very practical.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources