Cold-Formed Steel Panel and Stud Design
Design of cold-formed (light-gauge) steel shear wall panels according to TBDY 2018 and HCBTİE: panel tab inputs, sheathing shear capacity, stud checks, out-of-plane wind and deflection, sheathing rotational restraint, LRFD/ASD, warnings and reports.
Cold-Formed Steel Beam and Column Design
Design of beams and columns by assigning predefined C, Z, U, C+, Sigma and Sigma+ sections, using the effective width method according to HCBTİE: load combinations, checks, sheathing rotational restraint, profile library and adding your own profiles.
Cold-Formed Steel Floor: Floor Joists and Diaphragm
Checking of cold-formed steel floor joists according to HCBTİE 4.8, 7.4 and 7.5 (signed bending, Cb, combined bending and shear, web crippling, deflection, vibration), generation of floor joists by dividing the slab into strips, and TBDY 10.5 floor diaphragm checks.
Code Requirements, Anchorage and Foundation in Cold-Formed Steel Buildings
Earthquake load in cold-formed steel buildings (T = 0.2 s), proportioning of panel stiffnesses to capacity, earthquake share of gypsum-board panels, HCBTİE Chapter 6 and Table 1.2 requirements, panel anchorage and connection design, panel bottom and top tracks and bridging, and design of foundations with D.
Theoretical Basis of Cold-Formed Steel Design
Local, distortional and global buckling in cold-formed sections; the effective width method; HCBTİE compression, bending, shear and combined-effect equations; general method and finite strip for distortional buckling; sheathing rotational restraint; floor joist, floor generation and floor diaphragm equations; panel tracks and bridging; and assumptions.
Cold-Formed Steel Verification Studies
Verification of the cold-formed steel module: comparison of the section properties of 527 predefined profiles with the catalogue values, torsional properties, the general method and finite strip solution for distortional buckling, comparison of beam and column capacities with hand calculations; verification of the floor joist, floor generation, floor diaphragm, beam offset correction, panel track and bridging checks, unsheathed panels and the compression check in the diaphragm collector.
Worked Example: Two-Storey Cold-Formed Steel Building
Step-by-step solution of a two-storey cold-formed steel house in StatiCAD: project settings, panel walls, headers, cold-formed steel floor and floor joists, analysis, design refinement, results, calculation report and drawings.