Wall Panel Dead Load
Wall Panel Dead Load
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Is the vertical dead load of metal wall panel supported by the girts or the foundation/slab/grade beam? We have 100 feet tall building and someone is telling me that the full weight of the wall panel is supported by the grade beam around the perimeter. Which means the wall panel has to support it's own cumulative weight. At the same time, I haven't seen girts designed for anything but wind load.






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Rarebug
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You could also design it as a strip footing, but maybe the dead load is needed at the footings for overturning...????
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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When you say "girts", I visualize horizontal steel members spanning between steel mainframes of a metal building.
Are these "girts" horizontal or vertical members? If they are vertical, I would term them studs.
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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Last job I completed was girts spanning approx 9m and with 2 rows of sag struts. at the bottom of the bottom girt 2 short struts were put in propped from the panel and straightening the girt system as they are very weak in the vertical direction even under their own dead load.
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I find even a short bit of 90x45 timber sprayed with galvanised paint extremely effective at the bottom.
Cheers !
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Have used hangers many times to carry the dead load of the wall system. In a lot of cases in industrial buildings, the cladding stops well above the floor, so there is no choice but to hang it.
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Cheers!
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So it looks like unless you have sag rods, you need to carry the siding on the girts.
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Lothers was one of my steel design textbooks, the 2nd Edition, 1965. The exact same wording you quoted was found on page 411. Maybe that is why I am partial to hanging the girts from the eaves strut.