Buildings framed from cold-formed steel members are becoming increasingly common. Simulation of cold-formed steel (CFS) structures in this dissertation includes seismic modeling and analysis of a two-story CFS-framed ...

The Direct Strength Method (DSM) of cold-formed steel member design employs local, distortional, and global cross-section elastic buckling analysis with empirically derived “direct” expressions to predict member strength. ...

The experimental behavior of cold-formed steel (CFS) structures under seismic loads remains relatively unexplored. Modern design codes are based on member and sub- system level testing and have not been validated at the ...

Cold-formed steel may be used to frame the walls, floors, and roofs of modern buildings. The individual cold-formed steel members (studs) have sheathing attached to provide appropriate architectural enclosures. This sheathing ...

This report provides test and analysis results for a typical cold-formed steel (CFS) stud as employed in light steel framing for a building. Specifically, tests are conducted on a 362S162-68 (50 ksi) stud connected to ...

This study aims to compare the finite element and finite strip methods as they are used to perform buckling analyses of cold-formed steel wall studs. Load-bearing cold-formed steel studs are becoming more common as a ...

The objective of this study is to provide a prediction method for characterizing the complete moment-rotation (M-!) response of cold-formed steel (CFS) members in bending. The work is an ancillary effort related to the ...

The objective of report is to detail recent cyclic tests on cold-formed steel (CFS) framed shear walls sheathed with Oriented Strand Board (OSB). The tests details are motivated from shear walls designed for a two-story ...

The series of experiments reported here aims to characterize the hysteretic behavior of the connection between cold-formed steel (CFS) studs and sheathing when subject to in- plane lateral demands. This connection provides ...

The NSF sponsored CFS-NEES1 project R-CR: Enabling Performance-Based Seismic Design of Multi-Story Cold-Formed Steel Structures project was undertaken to study the behavior, particularly seismic behavior, of light-framed ...