When ordering steel framing materials, it is important to be aware of the variety and applications of the various shapes, encapsulated by the acronym STUFL.
These letters stand for Stud ,Track, U channel,Furring ,and L-header, pictured at the bottom of the page.
A stud includes wall studs, joists and refters because they are all of the same shape.
Track is the top and bottom "plates"of a steel wall or the rim of floors and refters.
U channel can be used for bridging , nlocking and customized for cabinet backing.
Furring channel is used as purlins, bridging,backing and for subassembly sound separation.
L- headers are brake-metal shaped members that can be doubled and used as headers.
cold formed steel is specified by a universal designator system called out by web dimension ,shape,flange dimension and thickness.