Now an annual tradition of sorts, here are the Journal articles in 2025 from the research group:
Cold-Formed Steel Members and Systems
Ding, C., Xia, Y., Akchurin, D., Blum, H. B., Li, Z., and Schafer, B. W. (2026). “Flexural strength of advanced high strength steel lipped channels.” Thin-Walled Structures, 218 doi:10.1016/j.tws.2025.114112.
Abbasi, M., Rasmussen, K. J. R., Khezri, M., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “Design Rules for the Sectional Buckling of Built-Up Cold-Formed Steel Members in Compression.” J.Struct.Eng., 151(9), doi:10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-14404.
Akchurin, D., Torabian, S., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “High-strength cold-formed steel stiffened channel section: Axial compressive strength and initial geometric imperfections.” Thin-Walled Structures, 206 doi:10.1016/j.tws.2024.112604.
Ding, C., Glauz, R. S., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “Section Method for Critical Local Buckling Stresses of Cold-Formed Steel C-Sections with Centered Rectangular Web Holes.” J.Struct.Eng., 151(6), doi:10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-14409.
Rasmussen, K. J. R., Khezri, M., Zhang, H., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “Recent research on built-up cold-formed steel structures.” Thin-Walled Structures, 215 doi:10.1016/j.tws.2025.113546.
Xie, J., Schafer, B. W., and Gernay, T. (2025). “A review of experiments on cold-formed steel members at elevated temperatures.” Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 229 doi:10.1016/j.jcsr.2025.109482.
Zhang, Z., Singh, A., Speicher, M. S., Peterman, K. D., Hutchinson, T. C., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “Modeling cold-formed steel framed wall-lines with steel sheet sheathed shear walls.” Thin-Walled Structures, 214 doi:10.1016/j.tws.2025.113408.
Wind Turbine Towers, Wind Energy, and Mechanics of Tubes
Ádány, S., and Schafer, B. W. (2025a). “Application of the Finite Tube Method for the analysis of tubular members: Buckling length, signature curve.” Thin-Walled Structures, 212 doi:10.1016/j.tws.2025.113171.
Ádány, S., and Schafer, B. W. (2025b). “Finite Tube Method for buckling analysis of tubular members using Fourier-approximation for the displacements.” Thin-Walled Structures, 206 doi:10.1016/j.tws.2024.112672.
Bin Shahadat, M. R., Doranehgard, M. H., Cai, W., Meneveau, C., Schafer, B. W., and Li, Z. (2025). “An airfoil-based synthetic actuator disk model for wind turbine aerodynamic and structural analysis.” Renewable Energy, 255 doi:10.1016/j.renene.2025.123780.
Ding, V., Torabian, S., Ádány, S., Yun, X., Pervizaj, A., Myers, A. T., and Schafer, B. W. (2025a). “Experimental Results of Stability of Cylindrical Shells under Combined Bending and Torsion.” J.Struct.Eng., 151(1), doi:10.1061/JSENDH.STENG-13381.
Cold-formed Steel in Ground Mounted Solar
Akchurin, D., Torabian, S., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “High-strength cold-formed steel stiffened channel section: Axial compressive strength and initial geometric imperfections.” Thin-Walled Structures, 206 doi:10.1016/j.tws.2024.112604.
General Structural Stability
Glauz, R. S., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “Generalized Elastic Lateral-Torsional Buckling of Steel Beams.” Eng.J., 62(1), 27–42. https://doi.org/10.62913/engj.v62i1.1336
Jin, S., Ádány, S., Li, Z., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “From kinematics to forces: A novel constrained finite strip method for thin-walled member modal analysis.” Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 235 doi:10.1016/j.jcsr.2025.109917.
Composite Construction
Rahnavard, R., Craveiro, H. D., Simões, R. A., Torabian, S., and Schafer, B. W. (2026). “Design of bolted shear connectors used in cold-formed steel-lightweight concrete (CFS-LWC) systems.” Eng.Struct., 347 doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2025.121733.
Rahnavard, R., Craveiro, H. D., Simões, R. A., Torabian, S., and Schafer, B. W. (2025). “Built-up cold-formed steel lightweight concrete (CFS-LWC) composite beams: applicability of EN 1994-1-1 and AISC-360.” Thin-Walled Structures, 214 doi:10.1016/j.tws.2025.113301.