Steel Hip Roof With Cold Formed Steel Joists

Fabricated ultra span trusses are the ideal cost effective alternative to structural steel bar joist fire treated wood and site assembled cold formed metal framing.

Steel hip roof with cold formed steel joists. Cold formed steel roof framing constructed in accordance with section r804 shall be located in line with load bearing studs in accordance with figure r804 1 2 and the tolerances specified as follows. The steeler technical design catalog is a collection of typical designs for steel framing and connections to help guide with your design process. Hip roof framing does not typically consider axial forces in rafters or hip members. The calalog should only be used as a guide as these are.

R14 non aligned roof wall framing r15 hip beam miscellaneous. This paper addresses the design of steel roof deck diaphragms on cold formed roof framing either rafters or trusses as shown in figure 1. Cold formed steel trusses at a glance cfs trusses are made up of either proprietary or standard c shaped members formed from flat steel and attached together with screws bolts or welds. Trussteel is the commercial framing industry s premier cold formed steel truss system.

W17 stud bracing with cold rolled channel w18 stud bracing with sheathing. Manufacturer of viperstud framerite studrite genieclip and joistrite. They are pre engineered with the help of software programs and can be customized into roof shapes and layouts for a. Criteria for design strength and stiffness of plywood diaphragms on cold formed framing are available from several sources but no equivalent resource exists for steel deck on cold formed framing.

Cold formed steel series final report residential hip roof framing using cold formed steel members by luke waldo research assistant sutton f. Hip ridge and valley plates. Stiff strong straight. Laboube project directors a research project sponsored by the american iron and steel institute july 2006 department of civil engineering wei wen yu center for cold formed steel structures.

We offer a complete line of cold formed steel framing products like metal stud framing rc channel metal floor joists metal lath and metal corner bead. This paper investigates the behavior of conventionally framed cold formed steel roof framing members using elastic finite element analysis methods. Our innovative double shear fastening technology combines with our patented symmetrical profile to efficiently transfer structural load. Cold formed steel refers to a manufacturing process where metallic coated sheet steel is roll formed into products such as studs joists track headers angles truss members and other components.

Cold formed steel floor and roof trusses are also available for cold formed steel framing applications.