Practical Cold-Formed Steel Design Books 1

[SteveGregory]

I am looking for a practical manual or book for designing structures framed with cold-formed steel members. It's easy to size a wall stud for wind or axial loads or size a rafter/joist for bending. SSMA and CFS vendors' catalogs will give you a good start. I am looking for a "best practices" guide for designing complete structures.

I found a couple of books that I am considering:
"Cold-Formed Steel Design Manual, 2013 Edition (AISI D100-13)" comes in 2 volumes
"Cold-Formed Steel Design Manual, 2008 Edition" comes as a kit (AISI D100-10-KIT) or a single volume (AISI D100-08)
"Cold-Formed Steel Design, 4th Ed" by Wei-Wen Yu & Roger A. LaBoube

I recently purchased "Design Guide: Cold-Formed Steel Framed Wood or Steel Sheathed Shear Wall Assemblies" by CFSEI

Any suggestions?

 

[KootK]

Mujagic: Structural Design of Low-Rise Buildings in Cold-Formed Steel, Reinforced Masonry, and Structural Timber (Link).



I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.

 

[Hemi79]

Steve Gregory: Any luck on your search? I am currently in a similar position. Looking to purchase the "Cold-Formed Steel Design Manual, 2013 Edition (AISI D100-13)" comes in 2 volumes and "Cold-Formed Steel Design, 4th Ed" by Wei-Wen Yu & Roger A. LaBoube. I have enough material on wood and masonry so I didn't consider the suggestion by KootK, did you get a chance to look at this book? I would still get it if it proved useful in cold formed steel compared to the other sources. I'm looking to design an 8,000 sq. ft. warehouse and they want to use cold formed steel. It would be my first, I have only ever worked with the AISC manual before.

Thanks,

 

[ajh1]

The Cold-Formed Steel Design Manual is the AISI equivalent of the AISC Steel Construction Manual. Vol. 1 has the tables and example problems. Vol. 2 is the AISI Specification and Commentary. The book by Wei-Wen Yu is probably the authorative textbook on the subject in the US.

 

[SteveGregory]

I just ordered the book Koot suggested.

 

[KootK]

The pressure... Steve mentioned SSMA so he likely already has this Link. I thought it worth mentioning anyhow, just in case. The details are great. The pros and cons comments beside the details are invaluable.

The Mujagic book spends most of its time in member design rather than whole building design. I like it but wouldn't put it ahead of most of the excellent references above.

The main cognitive leap in going from member design to whole building design, in my opinion, is ensuring that everything gets properly braced. This is a good resource for that: Link

I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.

 

[KootK]

This is excellent too and free: Link. It's specific to homes but there are a lot of details and methods that would be applicable to commercial structures as well.

I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.

 

[Ron]

KootK...thanks.

 

[XR250]

I used to design CFS load bearing structures, but choose to mainly do non-bearing CFS walls at this time. The quality of metal stud construction in our area is so bad, that only about 1/2 the details I drew got implemented and were really difficult to fix after the fact. IMHO. most of these load bearing CFS structures should use a steel frame and infill with the metal studs. It makes about 50% of the complicated details go away. I watched an 8 story load bearing metal stud hotel go up and the amount of studs and their gage was astonishing. I saw so many issues with the design and construction, it was insane. I can't imagine that would not have been cheaper and safer with a steel frame.