Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC)
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The Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium (CFSRC) is defined by its mission, vision, and core values.
Mission: To provide world-leading research that enables structural engineers and manufacturers to realize the full potential of structures utilizing cold-formed steel. To provide the world’s pre-eminent training experience for cold-formed steel researchers. To provide the cold-formed steel industry with world-leading research capabilities that are responsive to both short and long term needs of the industry. To enable engineers to quickly utilize the latest research and speed adoption of research into appropriate codes and standards. To leverage existing industry funding to win external research funds.
Vision: The Consortium is recognized by engineers, manufacturers, students, researchers, and funding agencies as the premier organization in the world for performing research in cold-formed steel structures. The Consortium grows the cold-formed steel research enterprise in the United States to greater than one million dollars per year.
Values: General solutions using fundamental knowledge create the most long-term benefits. Enable the best engineers to solve the most unique problems. Use experiments to gain knowledge, not to fill tables.
Based on these principles a Charter for the CFSRC was established at the Johns Hopkins University in May 2013
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CFSRC Colloquium 2020
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CFSRC Reports
Technical reports, final reports, and other documentation of CFSRC related project work
Recent Submissions
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Seismic Behavior of Steel SCBF Buildings Including Consideration of Diaphragm Inelasticity
(2021-04)This report provides a summary of nonlinear response history analyses conducted on a three- dimensional model of a series of steel buildings with special concentric braced frames (SCBFs). The models are conducted in OpenSees ... -
Post-elastic Capacity of Thin-walled Cold-formed Steel Members
(2020-10)The paper presents the possibility to apply the local plastic mechanisms to characterize the ultimate strength of thin-walled cold-formed steel members subjected to eccentric compression. In previous papers [13], [14], ... -
Material properties of cold-formed steel under subzero temperatures
(2020-10)Cold-formed steel (CFS) structures are becoming increasingly prominent in many construction scenarios because of its distinct advantages, which includes light-weight, easy and low cost for stacking, transportation, and ... -
Proceedings and Summary of the 2020 CFSRC Colloquium
(2020-10-22)With 110 concurrent attendees from 15 time zones and 51 papers and talks the global online Colloquium held from 20-21 October 2020 provided a unique forum for sharing and learning about the latest research and innovations ... -
Optimization of flexural strength for cold roll formed sections using design of experiments and response surface methodology
(2020-10-20)In this study, the buckling and ultimate strengths of cold rolled channel sections with intermediate stiffeners were studied using numerical modelling. In order to improve the section strength, various alternative sections ... -
The Direct Strength Method for Combined Bending and Web Crippling of Second-Generation Trapezoidal Steel Sheeting
(2020-10-20)Second-generation trapezoidal sheeting, characterised by longitudinal stiffeners in webs and flanges, is loaded near a support by a concentrated force and a bending moment. Currently, design codes predict related failure ... -
Numerical investigation of the impact of bearing condition on the axial behavior of variable-height cold-formed steel stud wall assemblies
(2020-10-20)This paper is devoted to identifying and numerically characterizing the strength of cold-formed steel (CFS) wall assemblies of various height with non-uniform bearing conditions. The results are for a means of evaluating ... -
Study on Sectional-Global Interaction Buckling of Stainless Steel Lipped-C Beam-Columns
(2020-10-20)As part of a research series concerning sectional and member capacity of cold-formed stainless steel beam-columns, this paper presents some experimental and simulated results on the interaction buckling behavior of stainless ... -
Strength of Steel-to-Steel Screw Connections - Update to Provisions
(2020-10-20)The objective of this research was to review the existing provisions of the AISI S100-16 North American Specification for Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members [1], for screw connections loaded in shear and tension (but not ... -
Metal Building Roof Purlin Line Strength by Computation
(2020-10-20)A computation-based method for metal building purlin and girt design is introduced using the AISI S100-16 North American Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members. Purlin section properties, span ... -
Effect of holes and stiffeners on the behavior of Eccentric loaded cold-formed steel built-up channel columns - numerical investigation
(2020-10-20)Cold-formed steel members often need to be opened in the web due to the passage of the building system pipeline. In general stiffeners of the web maybe strengthen their structural performance. In the field of cold-formed ... -
Structure Performance of Cold-formed Steel columns reinforced by Channel Sleeve under Axial and Eccentric compression
(2020-10-20)Due to the weak torsional stiffness of cold-formed thin-walled channel members, distortional buckling behavior maybe controlled the ultimate load-capacity under certain conditions. Therefore, a new section reinforced by ... -
Effects of pinching on seismic performances of unbraced steel storage pallet racks
(2020-10-20)Cold-formed steel storage unbraced pallet racks are generally used to store goods in large warehouses, and the existing full-scale shaking table tests show that a typical unbraced pallet rack exhibits a global failure ... -
A State-of-the-Art Review of Testing by Analysis in Cold-Formed Steel Design
(2020-10-20)New product development is crucial to allow innovation in the cold-formed steel structural industry. However, the required physical testing of new components and assemblies are often a cost barrier which prevents implementation ... -
Extensions of the constrained Finite Strip Method for thin-walled members: closed sections and sections with rounded corners
(2020-10-20)The objective of this paper is to provide a derivation for a constrained Finite Strip Method (cFSM) stability solutions that applied to thin-walled members with closed sections and sections with rounded corners. The current ... -
Ductility Demands on CFS Structural Connections of Advanced High Strength Steel
(2020-10-20)The objective of this paper is to investigate the ductility demand for typical cold-formed steel (CFS) connections when advanced high strength steel (AHSS) is used for the components. Although currently AHSS is mostly used ... -
Modeling of stress-strain relationship of advanced high-strength cold-formed steel at elevated temperature
(2020-10-20)Recent material advances in the steel manufacturing processes have led to materials with greatly enhanced capabilities at competitive cost. New grades of cold-formed steels, referred to as Advanced High-Strength Steels ... -
Numerical Study of Double Stud LSF Walls Exposed to Fire Conditions
(2020-10-20)Fire safety of light gauge steel frame (LSF) stud walls is important in the design of buildings. Many experimental and numerical studies have been undertaken to investigate the fire performance of load bearing LSF walls ... -
Fire performance of bio-based PCM lined LSF wall
(2020-10-20)Light gauge steel framed (LSF) wall systems are made of cold-formed steel studs lined with different types of wallboards. Increased demand for LSF wall systems has led to researchers focusing on improving their fire ... -
Cyclic Performance of Steel Sheet Connections for CFS framed Steel Sheet Sheathed Shear Walls
(2020-10-20)The main objective of this research is to study fastener-level force-deformation response appropriate for standard cold-formed steel (CFS) framed steel sheet sheathed shear walls under cyclic loads. Recently completed ...
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