Modular steel construction (MSC) comprises off-site manufactured volumetric modules and
on-site assembly, leading to reduced construction periods, improved quality, and reduced …

Cold-formed steel (CFS) shear walls are the primary lateral load resisting components in
lightweight steel framed (LSF) structures. The development of increasing complex LSF …

Buildings framed from cold-formed steel members are becoming increasingly common.
Significant research has been conducted on individual cold-formed steel members, but little …

Building codes around the globe are in a transition to update their design guidelines to meet
the objectives of performance based seismic design (PBSD). The fulfilment of the objectives …

Lightweight steel framed systems (LWS) are innovative construction systems whose
application has been steadily increasing over the years thanks to the huge benefits in terms …

The objective of this paper is to present finite element modeling protocols and validation
studies for the seismic response of a two-story cold-formed steel-framed building with …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the response of a cold-formed steel framed
building subjected to earthquake excitation primarily through nonlinear time history analysis …

K-shaped bracing is one of the lateral load resisting systems used in Cold-Formed Steel
structures. Recently, some researches have been conducted to obtain further information …

ABSTRACT The NSF NEESR project: Enabling the Performance-Based Design of Multi-
Story Cold-Formed Steel (CFS) Structures, known simply as CFS-NEES, has entered its final …

The objective of this paper is to summarize a multi-year effort to advance our understanding
in the seismic behavior of, and improve the design of, buildings framed from cold-formed …