The Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium is pleased to announce a new academic-industry initiative – Reliability 2030: Design of Steel as a System. This initiative aims to provide methods to steel structural engineers so that they can reliability design their structures as systems, not just members.
The potential benefits of moving on from current member based design are significant:
A multi-year effort is envisioned to develop and validate new system reliability factors that can close the gap between today’s component-based design and the true system performance.
The effort leverages much of what we have learned in earthquake engineering and in structural reliability for steel systems in the last decades, including:
The project brings together a strong CFSRC-based team to provide the solution:
