Structural · S-29FKM

Cold-Formed Steel Stud Blocking and Splice Strap Connection

Materials

Cold-formed Steel Timber / Wood Metal (misc.)

Elements

Walls

Connections

Rebar Splice / Development

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Cold-formed steel stud blocking is installed between vertical metal studs with matching size and gauge, placed at the end of walls and spaced horizontally at eight feet and vertically at forty-eight inches on center maximum. The blocking is prepared by cutting its flanges, bending the web, and attaching it to the studs using specified screws through each stud flange. A continuous one and a half inch gauge flat strap is positioned at the interior face of the studs at vertical spacings matching the blocking, secured with screws at each blocking location. Where sheathing occurs at the exterior face, the continuous flat strap may be omitted, and these straps are not required if all studs in a wall are connected directly to the blocking.

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