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Wall studs are framing components in timber or steel-framed walls, that run between the top and bottom plates.It is a fundamental element in frame building. The majority non-masonry buildings rely on wall studs, with wood being the most common and least-expensive material used for studs.
Wall framing in house construction includes the vertical and horizontal members of exterior walls and interior partitions, both of bearing walls and non-bearing walls. . These stick members, referred to as studs, wall plates and lintels (sometimes called headers), serve as a nailing base for all covering material and support the upper floor platforms, which provide the lateral strength along a
Cold-formed steel frames are also known as lightweight steel framing (LSF). Thin sheets of galvanized steel can be cold formed into steel studs for use as a structural or non-structural building material for both external and partition walls in both residential, commercial and industrial construction projects (pictured). The dimension of the ...
The staggered truss system for steel framing is an efficient structural system for high-rise apartments, hotels, motels, dormitories, and hospitals. The arrangement of story-high trusses in a staggered pattern at alternate column lines provide large column-free areas for room layouts. [ 2 ]
In light-frame construction, a trimmer is a timber or metal beam (joist) used to create an opening around a stairwell, skylight, chimney, and the like. Trimmers are installed parallel to the primary floor or ceiling joists and support headers, which run perpendicular to the primary joists.
Door –: A post framing a doorway. Blade – A specific name for the post-like timber in cruck framing. Cruck stud – The upright stud or post forming a wall, mounted on a cruck blade and held by a cruck spur. Pile, piling – A post driven or set into the ground such as in earthfast, post in ground, or "posthole construction". [16]
A beam of PSL lumber installed to replace a load-bearing wall at the first floor of a three-story building. The top plate or ceiling plate is the top of the wall, which sits just below the platform of the next floor (at the ceiling). The base plate or floor plate is the bottom attachment point for the wall studs.
Platform framing. In construction, a dwang Scotland and New Zealand, [1] [2] [3] nogging piece, nogging, noggin or nog (all derived from brick nog) [4] [5] England and Australia, or blocking North America, is a horizontal bracing piece used between wall studs to give rigidity to the wall frames of a building. Noggings may be made of timber ...