T-Stud and Holdowns

[Fil_struc]

Hi,


has anyone attached a holdown to a built up column of a T-stud?

 

[KootK]

I have not. I'd be willing to attach a hold down to a T-stud in the general sense. However, if the load path required the hold down tension to be passed from one part of the T-Stud to another across the trussing, I'd want the T-Stud folks to provide me with some assurance that is okay. And I'd want to ensure that the resulting eccentricity go resolved somehow.