Bracing Cold-Formed Steel Structures: A Design Guide is an essential guide for engineers, detailing the current practices related to bracing cold-formed steel structure elements and systems. This informative guide covers the risks and processes involved in using cold-formed steel, and removes some of the perceived mystery by providing readily useful information for bracing these structures. Presented as a design guide, the book will assist the practicing engineer in designing cold-formed steel structures with greater levels of reliability, safety, and economy.

The book contains many applications and examples, supplemented by design models illustrating bracing design for various types of cold-formed steel structures. The book also contains an extensive list of primary reference sources. 144 pp.

Bracing Cold-Formed Steel Structures: A Design Guide - Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Bracing Design
  • General Information
  • Categorization of Bracing
  • Basic Bracing Models
  • Provisions for Bracing Hot-Rolled Steel Structures
  • Differences Between Hot-Rolled and Cold-Formed Steel Bracing Design
  • Thickness of Steel Components
• Cold-Formed Framing
  • Introduction
  • Sheathing Braced Designs
  • Mechanically Braced Studs
  • Floor or Roof Joists
  • Cold-Formed Truss Framing
  • Shearwalls and Roof Diaphragms in Cold-Formed Framed Construction
• Cold-Formed Steel in Metal Building Systems
  • Introduction
  • Purlins and Girts with One Flange Through-Fastened to Sheathing
  • Purlins with One Flange Fastened to Standing Seam Metal Roofing (SSMR)
  • Strut-Purlins
  • Anchorage of Roof Systems under Gravity Load with Purlin Top Flange Connected to Sheathing
• Miscellaneous Cold-Formed Steel Elements and Systems
  • Introduction
  • Rack Systems
  • Shear Diaphragms
• Summary
• Appendices
  • A. Unit Conversions
  • B. Design Examples
    • Section 1. Face Mounted Strap for Mechanically Braced Axially Loaded Studs(ASD)
    • Section 3. Through-the-Punchout Bridging Design for Mechanically Braced Axially Loaded Studs
    • Section 4. Shear Wall Design (Type I)
    • Section 5. Shear Wall Design (Type II)
    • Section 6. Drag Strut and Truss Blocking Design
    • Section 7. Construction Bracing for Cold-Formed Steel Roof Truss
    • Section 8. Anchorage Forces in Roof Purlin System
    • Section 9. Tension Flange of Roof Purlin Braced by Sheathing
    • Section 10. Purlin with One Flange Fastened to Sheathing – Strut-Purlin
  • C. Lateral Bracing of Columns and Beams by George Winter (ASCE 1958)
  • D. Industry Organizations
  • E. References
• Index