professor ben schafer's thin-walled structures research group - johns hopkins university

MBMA Direct Strength Method (DSM) Workshop

July 26, 2006

Workshop Materials

Logistics (slides)

Overview (slides)

CUFSM Tutorial (1) (2) (3)

Purlin Do-it-Yourself Problems (1) (2) (3)

DSM Design Guide (slides)

Section Optimization Competition (slides)

Product Development (slides)

Wrap-up (slides)

Supplementary Materials

CUFSM 2.6 (download)

DSM Calculator (spreadsheet)

DSM Design Guide (purchase)

AISI 2004 Spec. Supplement (free w/ DSM Guide - purchase)

New Distortional Buckling Provisions (Spec) (Comm)

AISI 2002 Design Guide (purchase)

Papers

Schafer, B.W. “Designing cold-formed steel using the Direct Strength Method.” Eighteenth International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures, Orlando, FL. October 2006. (PDF)

Schafer, B.W., Ádány, S. “Buckling analysis of cold-formed steel members using CUFSM: conventional and constrained finite strip methods.” Eighteenth International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures, Orlando, FL. October 2006. (PDF)