jdgengineer
Structural
- Dec 1, 2011
- 748
We are working on a small project with C.R. Laurence interior glass partition walls. The walls are roughly 8'-0" tall and attach to a slab on grade at the base and to metal stud ceiling joists at the top.
How are these shoes commonly attached? It's my understanding that they are aluminium, so I want to make sure we don't have dissimilar metals in contact. Would you use stainless steel sheet metal screws to attach to the studs and stainless steel Titen HD anchor bolts at the base and separate the metals with a neoprene washer/gasket? Or what do you commonly see? I called C.R. Laurence but they did not provide any input and said the attachment is by others.
I was envisioning using 3/8" stainless steel Titen HD anchor bolts at 24" oc at the base and #10 stainless steel SMS screws @ 24" oc at the top. I can calc the demand on the fasteners (just 5 psf partition load), but I want to make sure I'm not specifying something unusual with their attachment.
How are these shoes commonly attached? It's my understanding that they are aluminium, so I want to make sure we don't have dissimilar metals in contact. Would you use stainless steel sheet metal screws to attach to the studs and stainless steel Titen HD anchor bolts at the base and separate the metals with a neoprene washer/gasket? Or what do you commonly see? I called C.R. Laurence but they did not provide any input and said the attachment is by others.
I was envisioning using 3/8" stainless steel Titen HD anchor bolts at 24" oc at the base and #10 stainless steel SMS screws @ 24" oc at the top. I can calc the demand on the fasteners (just 5 psf partition load), but I want to make sure I'm not specifying something unusual with their attachment.
