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 …

Abstract Lightweight Steel Frames (LSF) made by framing thin gauge cold-formed steel
(CFS) into different structural elements such as walls, trusses and joists are commonplace in …

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 …

Although concentrically braced frames (CBFs) possess high lateral stiffness and strength,
the buckling of compressive members indicates that a system does not have appropriate …

Sheathing with sprayed lightweight mortar (SLM) is proposed to enhance the performance of
shear walls framed with cold-formed steel (CFS). Full-scale specimens were tested to …

A novel cold-formed steel (CFS) sheathed and bare shear walls with a low-yield steel shear
energy-dissipating plate is proposed by taking advantage of the plastic deformation …

Cold-formed steel (CFS) framing shear walls has been widely used as the lateral force
resisting system of light-weight steel structures. While the behaviors of walls have been …

This paper presents a non-linear finite element analyses in order to optimize the seismic
characteristics of strap-braced cold formed steel shear walls enhanced with brackets in the …

In recent research activities, shake-table tests were revealed to be useful to investigate the
seismic behavior of cold-formed steel (CFS) buildings. However, testing full-scale buildings …

This paper investigates the performance of gypsum sheathed cold-formed steel (CFS) shear
wall panels under combined action of lateral and gravity loading. The influence of gravity …