Lateral Supports For The Building
Lateral Supports For The Building
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Hi,
Have a 60x40 building with roof trusses bearing on perimeter beams.
Beams are provided all around the building for truss bearing and lateral support. Can the infill cold-form studs between HSS columns supporting beams be considered ample for the lateral support of the structure or shall I be looking at additional structural members for lateral stability. Eave height is 12 ft with wind load of 22 psf and for ease assume column loads as 10 kips vertical/2kips Horizontal.
Thanks in advance for responding.
Have a 60x40 building with roof trusses bearing on perimeter beams.
Beams are provided all around the building for truss bearing and lateral support. Can the infill cold-form studs between HSS columns supporting beams be considered ample for the lateral support of the structure or shall I be looking at additional structural members for lateral stability. Eave height is 12 ft with wind load of 22 psf and for ease assume column loads as 10 kips vertical/2kips Horizontal.
Thanks in advance for responding.






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Though, your building isn't all that large. Maybe look at using a couple of interior walls too?
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us." -WSC
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A guy contracted to build a small array of bathrooms inside our factory, based on using ~26 gage galvanized framing, which is easily pierced with a hard pointed thread forming sheet metal screw.
His supplier 'did him a favor' and supplied 16 gage galvanized framing, so the poor guy had to predrill for every damn screw. It took him an extra two days.
A quick search has found design guides for 'standard' steel framing in gages from 12 to 24 including most even numbered gages between.
Do you specify a particular gage when you design light gage steel framing?
If not, perhaps you should consider doing so.
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Modern Tek screws easily fasten 16ga or heavier material in seconds. No drywall contractor with 1/2 a brain would use anything but.
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Licensed Structural Engineer and Licensed Professional Engineer (Illinois)
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Besides the gage, you should always spec the Fy and minimum allowable section properties (A, S, I) of all the structural members used due to preferences of different contractors in using different light gage steel manufacturers.
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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useful details for cold form framing.
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If you specify using SSMA nomenclature, it is not an issue as everything is pretty much standardized around that.
For instance, for a 6", 1 5/8" flange, 18ga structural stud, I will specify 600S162-43.
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Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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