The CFSRC has performed and maintains a large number of cold-formed steel relevant projects. Almost all projects result in internal reports available on the CFSRC DSpace in addition to technical publication. Large-scale projects from the CFSRC include:
Sample of Current Projects
Steel Diaphragm Innovation Initiative
CFS-NHERI (Earthquake Engineering of CFS-framed buildings)
Stud Bearing on Concrete
Next Generation Steels for Construction
CFS fillet weld performance
Steel deck sidelap stiffness and strength testing
Edge distance in bolted lap shear connections
Evaluation of ASCE41 for CFS
Rigid Wall Flexible Diaphragm Building performance studies
Analytical Expressions for Local Buckling
more…
Sample of Past projects
Archetypes for CFS-framed Buildings
CFS-NEES (EQ Eng. of CFS-framed buildings)
System Reliability of Cold-Formed Steel Structures
Spirally Welded Wind Turbine Towers
Energy Dissipation and Buckling Mitigation Through the Use of Steel Foams
ASCE 41 for CFS
CFS-framed Diaphragms
Efficient Computational Models of CFS Shear Walls
MASTAN and CUFSM integration effort
Blast in CFS-framed buildings
see Reports for more!