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

MBMA Workshops/Meetings

What's new in the 2007 AISI Specification?

July 23, 2009

Workshop Materials

Slides with ink markups (pdf)

CFSEI tech note on distortional buckling (pdf)

Supplementary Materials

Purlins bending + torsion paper by Vieria et al. (pdf)

CFSEI (tech notes free to members) (go there)

AISI 2007 Specification (purchase at AISI)

AISI 2008 Design Manual (purchase at AISI)

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)