Connection between wood and steel studs

[ShireenB]

Hi guys, I'm designing a residential building and I need to design a connection between the wood studs and exterior steel studs (for fire protection). It's very urgent!! The connection must resist wind pressure and suction. Can anyone help???
Thanks so much!

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Assuming the wood studs can take the wind loads - just select screws that will carry the wind load??

 

[ShireenB]

So basically just calculate the wind load and check the capacities of the screws? Can regular screws be fastened between wood and steel?

Thanks alot for your response!

 

[focuseng]

Why not? If you know the bending stress of the screw and its size, it fits into the NDS fastener yield mode equations nicely. You will need to modify a bit for the metal part attached similar to a steel plate and you will have to analyze steel separately and such for its respective failure modes.

MAP