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Cold-formed steel flexural member distortional buckling question

Cold-formed steel flexural member distortional buckling question

Cold-formed steel flexural member distortional buckling question

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I have been designing cold-formed steel framing using the tables provided in the AISI Cold-Formed Steel Design Manual. Most of the flexural tables are based on flexural buckling. I "discovered" tables in that manual that have distortional flexural buckling strengths. Could someone please explain when distortional buckling might control when checking flexural strength? From what I understand distortional buckling strength is affected by the stiffness of sheathing and the type and spacing of fasteners between the sheathing and the studs. If I have sheathing on both sides of a wall stud and that stud is exposed to bending due to wind loads, can I ignore distortional buckling as long as the sheathing is fastened at a certain spacing?

RE: Cold-formed steel flexural member distortional buckling question

(OP)
Thank you! But 404 pages? I think I'm getting lazy (or stupid) in my old age. Can someone perhaps give me a short summary about distortional buckling? What do I have to do to insure that it does not control design when designing wall studs or floor/roof joists?

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