Unlike a load-bearing wall, which is designed to resist wind load perpendicular to the plane of the wall and to transfer gravity load from floor to floor or floor to foundation, a non-load bearing exterior wall is designed to resist only wind load. Deflection connectors: used in non-load-bearing exterior walls.Rigid connectors: used in load-bearing walls.These connectors can be categorized in two main groups based on the function of framing in the building: This blog is limited to the connectors used to attach cold-formed steel wall studs to floors or other structural components of a building such as structural/hot rolled steel or concrete slab. In cold-formed steel framing, a wide variety of connectors are used depending on the configuration of the structure (parapet, cornice, kicker, etc.).
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