Buildings framed with cold-formed steel (CFS) members offer several benefits such as low installation and maintenance costs, high durability and
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Modeling Ledger Framing
Recently experimental work on joist-to-ledger connections (Ayhan and Schafer 2019) have demonstrated a complex behavior involving limit states such as
Modeling Sheathed Shear WAlls
Cold-formed steel (CFS) can be used for both structural and non-structural building systems, including as the designated lateral force resisting
Profile: CFS-NHERI Researcher
Meet one of the CFS-NHERI student researchers: My name is Zhidong Zhang, a third year PhD student in the Thin-walled
CFSRC Announces NEW CONFERENCE
Cold-Formed Steel Researchers: The Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC) is pleased to announce the first ever online, global CFSRC Colloquium
CFSRC Summer Symposium
CFSRC is hosting an online symposium 26 and 27 May for students of CFSRC investigators to share their latest research.
CFS and BLAST 101
by Nabil Rahman In this article, we discuss blast analysis of structures as set out in US building codes and
CFSRC Reports Online
CFSRC released a large trove of CFS research reports, going back to 2000, based on research from CFSRC investigators. The
Analysis Blog kicks off
https://cfsrc.org/category/analysis-blog/Analysis of cold-formed steel can be complicated. Codes and standards are great, but they often don’t provide the engineer with
Sino-American CFSRC MEETING
The inaugural Sino-American Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC) Colloquium was held on 23-25 August, 2019 in Tongji University, Shanghai, China,