Cold-Form Steel Stud / Column 1

[EIT2]

I see details for cold-form steel headers bearing on single, cold-form, stud columns. Does anyone have any input in reference to specifying a double, cold-form stud column for heavy loads? I am concerned about the load of the header crushing or crippling the leading web of the first stud. Is this a concern to anyone else?

Thank you!

 

[denoid]

My opinion (for what it's worth):

Usually, when I have detailed a double cold-formed header, I've shown it with the toes pointed in and connected together in a box beam configuration, and reinforced with c-shaped track sections along the top and bottom flanges.

If you do the same thing with a double stud column, and reinforce it along the connected sides with track, I believe it behaves like an HSS beam on an HSS column. The vertical load from the box shaped header should transfer through the webs to the side faces of the column, rather than the leading edge of the column, as you describe.