Dr.S.'s Cold-Formed Steel Library Page

1. Introduction/Overview
Wikipedia page
Cold-Formed Steel for (Undergraduate) Students

2. Products and Catalogs
SSMA C-sections catalog
SFIA C-sections catalog
TSN Sigma stud
LGSI Metal Building C and Z's
SDI Steel Deck Profiles
See AISI Design Manual* for more sections

2. Codes and Standards
AISI-S100 Design of cold-formed steel structural members*
AISI-S200 CFS Framing - General*
AISI-S210 CFS Framing - Floor and Roof System Design*
AISI-S211 CFS Framing - Wall Stud Design*
AISI-S212 CFS Frmaing - Header Design*
AISI-S213 CFS Framing - Lateral Design*
AISI-S214 CFS Framing - Truss Design*
AISI-S110 CFS Special Bolted Moment Frames*
EN1993-1-3:2006? Eurocode cold-formed members
AS/NZS 4600 Australian cold-formed steel standard 2005, 2010
CCFSS Tech Bulletin Eurocode vs. AISI

*for purchase from steel framing alliance bookstore.

2. Technical Overview
SSRC Guide 2009 Thin-walled Construction Chapter 13

3. Stability of CFS Members by Finite Strip Method (FSM)
CUFSM and tutorials
DSM Design Guide*
Schafer and Adany 2006 conf. paper
Li and Schafer 2010 conf. paper

AISI-S100* Appendix 1 Commentary

4. From FSM to Direct Strength Method (DSM)
DSM Calculator (simple spreadsheet)
AIS1-S100* Appendix 1 Spec. and Commentary
DSM Design Guide*
JCSR 2008 Review Article on DSM
UMR/MS&T 1998 first DSM conf paper

5. Plate stability and local buckling
Timoshenko Theory of Elastic Stability or
Chajes Principles of Structural Stability Theory

Plate stability - SSRC Guide 2009 Chapter 4
AISI-S100 Commentary* for k values
Plate to member local buckling DSM Design Guide* Ch. 9

6. Effective Width Basics
von Karman 1932 eff width paper with notes
Winter 1947 strength of thin steel compression flanges paper
Classic effective width description - AISI S100 Commentary*
Moen Thesis extract, Actual Effective Width Calculation
Pekoz Unified Method, AISI report 1986
Eff. Width Summary & DSM - SSRC Guide 2009 Ch. 13

Eff. Width compare w/ DSM - JCSR 2008 Review Article

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. Effective section of Beams
AISI Design Manual examples I-8,I-9
Flange: Desmond, Pekoz and Winter 1981 JSE paper, but
see also Schafer JSE 1999 paper for drawbacks
Web: Schafer and Trestan 2002 conf. paper
Lip: JSE 2004 Bambach and Rasmussen research


8.Distortional Buckling (and edge stiffeners)

Desmond, Pekoz and Winter 1981 paper

Hancock et al. 1994 DB paper

Schafer beams paper

Schafer columns paper

Yu and Schafer beam local buckling tests

Yu and Schafer beam distortional buckling tests

RSAEE 2010 Rotational restraint paper

DB CFSEI Tech Note for Designers

9. CFS Tour of Brody Learning Commons

10. Global buckling - many methods

Specification formulas (also see DSM Guide Ch. 9)
CUTWP - classic member stability
CUFSM with cFSM (G & O or G & v=0)

Two-point method DSM Design Guide 8.13, 8.14


10b. Shear and web crippling

Shear
AISI-S100 C3.2, rational DSM extension JCSR 2008
Hancock and Pham work
Hancock USyd RR on signature curve
Web crippling
AISI-S100 C3.4
Beshara 2002 UMR conf. paper


11. Capstone Beam and Column Design Problems

Beam - AISI Design Manual Example II-1
Column - AISI Design Manual Example III-3

12. Bracing
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Winter column bracing paper 1947
Purlins with bracing on one flange (2010 paper)





 

 

Stability by hand methods
Plate stability - textbook derivations...
Plate stability - SSRC Guide 2009 Chapter 4
Member stability - textbook derivations
Member stability
Distortional buckling: see edge stiffeners and distortional buckling

 

 

Other Technical Papers (not yet categorized)

 

Imperfections and residual stresses 1998 paper

 

Torsion and CFS Gotluru paper

 

Overview on behavior of sheathed wall studs (Hiriyur conf paper)

 

Accommodating building deflections in CFS systems

 

Yield line analysis of CFS members

 

FE modeling of CFS beams to collapse Yu and Schafer