Thank you for your recommendations. @bridgebuster, I've looked into the course and will likely be enrolling, thank you for the tip! Have you taken this course? I'm hoping it will still be relatively applicable to Canadian design.
I'm helping with some pre-stressed concrete design (Canada) but often feel ignorant to many nuances and details of pre-stressed concrete design. I'd like to have a good reference text I can pour into to learn much more. Currently I've been referring to the CPCI design manual which has been...
@KootK
Great research, thank you for the information! I spent quite a bit of time reading through the journal article you posted when I was initially looking for solutions, that journal article actually recommends using something very similar to my initial assumptions for determining my bearing...
@BSVBD
I apologize, I misspoke. What I meant to say is that the bearing strength is half of the axial strength of the studs, not half the strength of the axial loads... that would be poor design!
@BAretired
Thank you for the tip. What you recommended is actually exactly what I was referring to...
I am doing some preliminary cost sizing for a building with cold-formed steel studs and concrete floor slabs. I'm using axial load strength tables for the studs, and in trying to do a check for the bearing strength of the stud on the concrete, it seems that the bearing strength heavily governs...
