Wood Stud Wall Design

The wall stud and exterior wall column tables in this guide include the effects of notches and holes on their capacity.
Wood stud wall design. An excellent value in wood frame party walls consists of single layer 5 8 sheetrock brand gypsum panels firecode c core resiliently attached to one side of studs and directly attached to the other side plus 3 thermafiber safb pressed tightly into the stud cavity this lightweight partition is widely used for its high sound value stc 50. Design asd and load and resistance factor design lrfd. Chapter 5 design of wood framing the principal method of design for wood framed construction has historically been allowable stress design asd. Solutions have been developed based on the 2015 and 2018 national design specification nds for wood construction and the 2015 special design provisions for wind and seismic sdpws as appropriate.
Whether you are focused on designing the layout of studs for wall panel diagrams or you desire to use softplan s bill of materials to accurately count the lumber needed for a given project softplan s framing mode will allow for as much detail as needed. The stud tables in this workbook are provided for lumber studs up to 6 1 m 20 ft and proprietary engineered wood studs up to 11 9 m 39 ft. Stud design tables for both lumber and engineered wood studs are provided to demon strate wood s suitability for engineered tall wall construction. A load bearing stud wall design example based on the allowable stress design methods outlined in awc s 2015 national design specification nds for wood construction and 2015 wood frame construction manual along with asce 7 10 minimum design loads for buildings and other structures will demonstrate standard design checks for limit states of strength and deflection.
The engineered tall walls described in this workbook are extensions of the traditional stud walls used in canada for over a hundred years. Usg provides resources here for our ul wall assemblies for seamless integration into any construction project. It contains design examples and complete solutions calculated using asd and lrfd. Refer to drilling notching on page 4 for the limitations of notch and hole size and location.
These wall assembly files are used for planning and estimation purposes for many ul wall types such as fire rated wall assemblies.