Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium
Reports from CFSRC are housed at DSPACE in the Johns Hopkins library system. The DSPACE repository is fully searchable and provides an abstract and graphical representation for each report – as well as full PDFs and supporting information. Note, although CFSRC concluded its activities in 2023, the DSPACE repository will remain supported by the Johns Hopkins Libraries. In addition, the Thin-walled Structures Group will continue to post to the repository over time, and make the repository available to other CFS organizations as appropriate going forward.
The reports cover 20+ years of research on thin-walled structures including extensive work on cold-formed steel structures. Included in the repository is hard to find comprehensive summaries on distortional buckling, complete data sets on experiments such as the rotational restraint provided by sheathing to cold-formed steel members, complete design of the CFS-NEES building, comprehensive work on sheathing braced design for members, complete data and response for seismic testing of the CFS-NEES building, and extensive literature on steel deck diaphragms (e.g. this database), and much much more. Visit the repository and dig in.
Collections of note include:
CFSRC Colloquium Proceedings 2020, 2022
CFSRC Summer Symposium for Students
Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures
The Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures, which operated through 2020, held a biennial conference, issued research reports, as well as technical bulletins and newsletters. The library at Missouri Science and Technology maintains copies of all technical materials associated with the center, including:
CCFSS Library (1939 – present)
CCFSS Newsletters (1999 – 2008)
CCFSS Technical Bulletins (1993 – 2020)
Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) Specifications and Manuals (1984 – 2012)
Steel Deck Institute (SDI) Specifications and Manuals (1939 – present)