Stealthy Strength of Cold-Formed Steel | Ben Schafer Part 2

Описание: The seemingly outsized strength of cold-formed steel is not well-known. In this episode, earthquake engineer Ben Schafer describes a research-industry collaboration with the automotive industry resulting in code changes for high-strength sheet-steel. Sheet steel has also been successfully tested in flooring systems. The upcoming CFS10 shake table test at UC San Diego is the high-rise building test for cold-formed steel. Schafer addresses misconceptions that structural engineers have regarding CFS: Basically: cold-formed steel looks too thin to be strong. However, with high-strength sheet steel, deformations do not correlate to lack of strength, which is something that automotive and aircraft engineers have long understood.


Ben Schafer’s bio at John Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
https://engineering.jhu.edu/faculty/b...

Ben Schafer’s research group, Thin-walled Structures
https://www.ce.jhu.edu/bschafer/

Learn about Schafer’s current CFS testing program:

CFS-NHERI: 10-Story Building Capstone Test Program at NHERI UC San Diego
https://cfs10.ucsd.edu

Learn more about cold-formed steel:

Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium
https://cfsrc.org/

Cold-formed Steel Engineers Institute
https://www.cfsei.org

Build Steel, the steel-framing industry association
https://buildsteel.org