The 2024 edition of the North American Standard for Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members – AISI S100 has been completed and
Author: schafer@jhu.edu
Open letter to past CFSRC Colloquium Participants
Friends of Cold-Formed Steel In case you have not already heard, the CFSRC Colloquium will not be held in 2024.
CFSRC Concludes Operations After Decade of Advances
The Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC), an industry-academic cooperative to advance cold-formed steel research, headquartered at Johns Hopkins University, concluded
CFSRC Investigators Convene
CFSRC investigators convened to discuss new research ideas and share their latest work in Amherst Massachusetts, 21-23 June 2023, to
Fire design for CFS structures to be advanced by CFSRC Investigator Thomas Gernay with new NSF Career Award
REPRINT OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE PRESS RELEASE: WASHINGTON, DC – A research project progressing from the American Iron
Reliability 2030: Design of Steel as a System
The Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium is pleased to announce a new academic-industry initiative – Reliability 2030: Design of Steel as
CFS Shearwall Database Developed by CFSRC researchers
CFSRC researchers Zhidong Zhang, Mohammed Eladly, and Ben Schafer working on the CFS-NHERI project and Colin Rogers from McGill University
Simpler method for predicting CFS seismic deflections validated
CFSRC researchers Mohammed Eladly and Ben Schafer working on the CFS-NHERI project investigated the seismic deflection amplification factor (Cd) for
Visualizations for forthcoming 10-story test released
The 10-story slice of the CFS-NHERI building will be tested in Spring 2024. The team recently completed Autocad and Revit
Cyclic wall-line tests provide new insights on interactions
In the first phase of CFS-NHERI wall-line testing, cold-formed steel (CFS)-framed wall-line assemblies (shear walls in-line with gravity walls) were