Steel Shear Wall Panels

This wall consists of the reinforcements and.

Steel shear wall panels.

The 9 through 18 widths are a one piece c section that is enclosed at the top and bottom with channels. Plywood is the conventional material used in wood timber shear walls but with advances in technology and modern building methods other prefabricated options have made it possible to inject shear assemblies into narrow walls that fall at either side of an opening. The steel plate wall consists of steel plate walls and bounded by the columns and the. Steel plate shear wall.

Shear walls are typically light framed or braced wooden walls with shear panels reinforced concrete walls reinforced masonry walls or steel plates. The steel strong wall shearwalls conform to icc es acceptance criteria ac322 and are code listed under the 2015 irc ibc see icc es esr 1679. Simpson strong tie has two products in our prefabricated shearwall family the steel strong wall ssw and the strong wall wood shearwall wsw. Overview in residential construction steel studs and track are generally covered with cladding to form a wall assembly with significant shear strength.

Steel strong wall for cold formed steel. These walls consist. Types of the shear wall. Cold formed steel 1st story floor systems.

This is the most common type of this walls. It is common design practice to use this wall shear strength to resist lateral loads such as those caused by wind and earthquake. The hardy frame panel comes in widths of 9 12 15 18 21 and 24. Sheet steel and steel backed shear panels in the place of structural plywood.