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2025 Journal Papers from the Group

December 28, 2025 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

Now an annual tradition of sorts, here are the Journal articles in 2025 from the research group: Cold-Formed Steel Members

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CUFSM Updated and Compiled

November 30, 2025 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

Our group’s elastic buckling software CUFSM – which is fully detailed at this website and on GitHub. Has had a

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Testing a 10-story CFS building

August 28, 2025 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

During the summer of 2025 we conducted full-scale shake table tests on a 10-story cold-formed steel framed building. Learn more

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2024 Journal Papers from the Group

January 1, 2025 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

Growing into an annual tradition! Here is a quick summary of the 2024 journal papers from the group. Reliability and

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AISC Higgins Award and Lecture

March 1, 2024 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

Benjamin Schafer Selected to Receive T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award from AISC Author: Wick Eisenberg Benjamin Schafer, the Willard and Lillian

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2023 Journal Papers from the Group

December 27, 2023 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

2023 was a busy year for the TW Group as usual! Below is a list of 2023 journal articles, links

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Ready to shake a ten-story CFS building?

December 27, 2023 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

Our long-running multi-institutional cold-formed steel earthquake engineering project: CFS-NHERI is looking forward to a monumental 2024. In 2024 we will

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So long CFSRC, it was a good run

December 27, 2023 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

Around 2010 I had the idea to create a research consortium around cold-formed steel. I thought we could combine all

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Steel Building Structures Research – 2022 Recap

December 31, 2022 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

The TW Group was busy as always working on advancing steel, particularly cold-formed steel, building structures research. Here is a

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Wind Tower Structures Research – 2022 Recap

December 31, 2022 Ben Schafer Uncategorized

Thanks to the excellent research of TW Group members such as Ph.D. Candidate Victoria Ding, Visiting Faculty Scholars Dr. Sandor Ádány, Dr.

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