Projects – Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium

CFSRC Data Driven Initiative

A team of CFSRC researchers is leading an effort to collect and curate cold-formed steel physical test data that can

The Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium is pleased to announce a new academic-industry initiative – Reliability 2030: Design of Steel as

CFSRC researchers Zhidong Zhang, Mohammed Eladly, and Ben Schafer working on the CFS-NHERI project and Colin Rogers from McGill University

CFSRC researchers Mohammed Eladly and Ben Schafer working on the CFS-NHERI project investigated the seismic deflection amplification factor (Cd) for

The 10-story slice of the CFS-NHERI building will be tested in Spring 2024. The team recently completed Autocad and Revit

The archetype mid-rise CFS building developed in Torabian et al. (2016) is the basis for the 10-story CFS-NHERI archetype building.

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

New experiments from CFSRC researchers shed light on bending-torsion interaction in wind turbine towers. The tests, which were first reported

Experimental testing for the AISI-funded project, Stud Bearing on Concrete Slabs, concluded this month at UMass Amherst. The final experiments

CFSRC researchers Zhidong Zhang and Ben Schafer working on the CFS-NHERI project released a test report today investigating the fastener-level