Buildings framed with cold-formed steel (CFS) members offer several benefits such as low installation and maintenance costs, high durability and
Category: Projects
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
New project on CFS studs with less than perfect bearing kicks off
The American Iron and Steel Institute has recently selected CFSRC Affiliated Investigators Dr. Kara Peterman (UMass-Amherst) and Dr. Zhanjie Li
New NSF project on seismic resiliency of CFS-framed buildings
NSF has awarded the CFSRC team of Tara Hutchinson (UCSD) and Ben Schafer (JHU) a new multi-year project to investigate