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Steel Deck Diaphragms: Characterizing The Hysteretic Behavior Of Light Gage Steel, Screw-Fastened, Support And Sidelap Connections And The Influence Of Support Connections On The Stability Behavior Of Panels, Divyansh Kapoor
Doctoral Dissertations
Steel deck diaphragms are planar structures that serve as critical components of a metal building’s lateral force-resisting system. These can be found in walls, floors, and roofs of metal buildings and aid with the lateral stability of the structure. The diaphragm design process involves the selection of materials, deck geometry, connections, and connection detailing across the steel panels. The American Iron and Steel Institute’s AISI S310 and Steel Deck Institutes DDM04 both provide design guidance on the selection and detailing of materials and fasteners for the applicable limit states of connections and stability of the panels. Both design codes provide …
Harnessing The Mechanics Of Thin-Walled Metallic Structures: From Plate-Lattice Materials To Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls, Fani Derveni
Harnessing The Mechanics Of Thin-Walled Metallic Structures: From Plate-Lattice Materials To Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls, Fani Derveni
Doctoral Dissertations
Thin-walled structures have received a lot of interest during the last years due to their light weight, cost efficiency, and ease in fabrication and transportation, along with their high strength and stiffness. This dissertation focuses on the mechanical performance of thin-walled metallic structures from cold-formed steel shear walls and connections (PART I) to plate-lattice architected materials (PART II) via computational, experimental, and probabilistic methods. Cold-formed steel (CFS) shear walls subjected to seismic loads is the focus of PART I of this dissertation. An innovative three-dimensional shell finite element model of oriented strand board (OSB) sheathed CFS shear walls is introduced …
Cold-Formed Steel Stud Assemblies Bearing On Concrete Slabs, Abbas Joorabchian
Cold-Formed Steel Stud Assemblies Bearing On Concrete Slabs, Abbas Joorabchian
Doctoral Dissertations
Cold-formed steel (CFS) bearing walls are frequently installed on concrete slabs, which do not provide perfectly rigid and uniform bearing conditions. Existing design guidance assumes bearing conditions have no impact on the axial capacity, though cold-formed steel compressive members are particularly susceptible to end conditions. Studs are typically installed at the edge of concrete slabs, which is prone to spalling and geometric irregularities. Moreover, they are occasionally installed inadvertently overhanging from concrete slabs. In this research project, the impact of non-uniform and partial bearing conditions on the axial strength of cold-formed steel wall assemblies is identified and characterized experimentally and …
High Fidelity Modeling Of Cold-Formed Steel Single Lap Shear Screw Fastened Connections, Rita Kalo
High Fidelity Modeling Of Cold-Formed Steel Single Lap Shear Screw Fastened Connections, Rita Kalo
Masters Theses
Cold-formed steel connections are commonly fastened using self-tapping self-drilling screws. The behavior of these connections can differ based on the screw manufacturer or the cold-formed steel product used, both of which have a large selection available for use in industry. Because of their popularity and the many possible variations of these connections, researchers have frequently tested screw connections to characterize their behavior. However, repeatedly conducting this type of experiment is time consuming and expensive. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to create finite element models that can successfully predict the behavior of single lap shear screw connections, a common …
Nonlinear Fastener-Based Modeling Of Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls Under Lateral Loads, Fani Derveni
Nonlinear Fastener-Based Modeling Of Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls Under Lateral Loads, Fani Derveni
Structural Engineering Masters Projects
As cold-formed steel (CFS) has increasingly been used in low- and mid-rise construction across United States, it becomes necessary to capture and evaluate its lateral response in both, sub-system/member level and system level. The main lateral resisting system in cold-formed steel construction is shear walls; shear walls are the focus of this work. In particular, the present study aims to shed light on the response of wood sheathed coldformed steel (CFS) shear walls exposed to earthquake events through nonlinear high fidelity fastener-based modeling. The numerical approach is fastener-oriented including nonlinear experimental-determined connector elements for steel-to-sheathing connections, orthotropic oriented strand board …
Behavior Of Cold-Formed Steel Metal Industrial Buildings, Adrianna M. Early, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Richard L. Wood, Kara D. Peterma
Behavior Of Cold-Formed Steel Metal Industrial Buildings, Adrianna M. Early, Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Richard L. Wood, Kara D. Peterma
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications
This paper presents research focused on understanding the observed behavior of cold-formed steel (CFS) metal buildings during Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall Friday, August 25, 2017 between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, Texas. Through the Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance (GEER) association (funded by the National Science Foundation) a team of structural engineers and researchers performed rapid and detailed assessments of structural damage caused by the hurricane. The National Science Foundation gathered photographs, damage assessments sheets, and three-dimensional laser point cloud data of severely damaged cold-formed steel industrial buildings. The Port Aransas County Airport experienced severe damage to several cold-formed steel …
Energy Dissipation Of Thin-Walled Cold-Formed Steel Members, David A. Padilla-Llano, Christopher D. Moen, Matthew Eatherton
Energy Dissipation Of Thin-Walled Cold-Formed Steel Members, David A. Padilla-Llano, Christopher D. Moen, Matthew Eatherton
American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Specifications, Standards, Manuals and Research Reports (1946 - present)
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Advanced Design Optimization Of Cold-Formed Steel Portal Frame Buildings, Duoc T. Phan, James B. P. Lim, Tiku T. Tanyimboh, Wei Sha
Advanced Design Optimization Of Cold-Formed Steel Portal Frame Buildings, Duoc T. Phan, James B. P. Lim, Tiku T. Tanyimboh, Wei Sha
CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)
The design optimization of cold-formed steel portal frame buildings is considered in this paper. The objective function is based on the cost of the members for the main frame and secondary members (i.e., purlins, girts, and cladding for walls and roofs) per unit area on the plan of the building. A realcoded niching genetic algorithm is used to minimize the cost of the frame and secondary members that are designed on the basis of ultimate limit state. It is shown that the proposed algorithm shows effective and robust capacity in generating the optimal solution, owing to the population’s diversity being …
An Efficient Genetic Algorithm For The Design Optimization Of Cold-Formed Steel Portal Frame Buildings, Duoc T. Phan, James B. P. Lim, Tiku T. Tanyimboh, Wei Sha
An Efficient Genetic Algorithm For The Design Optimization Of Cold-Formed Steel Portal Frame Buildings, Duoc T. Phan, James B. P. Lim, Tiku T. Tanyimboh, Wei Sha
CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)
The design optimization of cold-formed steel portal frame buildings is considered in this paper. The real-coded genetic algorithm (GA) optimizer proposed considers both building’s topology (i.e. frame spacing and pitch) and cross-sectional sizes of the main structural members as the decision variables that are optimized. Previous GAs in the literature were characterized by poor convergence including slow progress that usually results in excessive computation times and/or frequent failure to achieve an optimal or near-optimal solution. This is the main issue addressed in this paper. In an effort to improve the performance of the conventional GA, a niching strategy is presented …
Studies On Bracing Member End Connections For Cold Formed Steel Sections, R. P. Rokade, N. Prasad Rao, R. Balagopal, S. J. Mohan
Studies On Bracing Member End Connections For Cold Formed Steel Sections, R. P. Rokade, N. Prasad Rao, R. Balagopal, S. J. Mohan
CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)
This paper is concentrated mainly on the behaviour of bracing end connections for cold formed steel lipped angle and lipped channel sections. For bracing members, only one flange is possible to connect with tower leg member or supporting member, which causes uneven distribution of stresses in the end section popularly known as shear lag effect. Tension tests have been carried out to simulate the bracing end connections. Special test rig has been assembled and end fittings fabricated such that the load will be applied as concentric load at the pulling end and on the other end load is transferred through …
Improved Reliability Determination When Testing Cold-Formed Steel Components, V. M. Zeinoddini, B. W. Schafer
Improved Reliability Determination When Testing Cold-Formed Steel Components, V. M. Zeinoddini, B. W. Schafer
CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018)
The objectives of this paper are to (a) determine the sensitivity of the reliability calculations in Chapter F of the AISI Specification (AISI-S100-07) to controlling load combinations and loading ratios, and (b) develop a more robust alternative for the use of Chapter F. To complete this study the bias factors and variances for all loading conditions are established. In addition, a range of practical load ratios is agreed upon. Parametric studies are performed to explore load case and load ratio dependency for use in the determination of the resistance factor, Φ; specifically, the pre-factor term CΦ and the load variance …
Failure Of Cold-Formed Steel Beams During Concrete Placement, Norbert Delatte
Failure Of Cold-Formed Steel Beams During Concrete Placement, Norbert Delatte
Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications
During a concrete placement on the second story of a building under construction, the supporting cold-formed steel beams collapsed. Four workers were injured. The collapse occurred while concrete was being placed onto steel decking on the second floor of the structure. Cold-formed steel beams, without shoring, supported the steel decking. Analysis of the steel beams under the weight of concrete and workers using the applicable American Concrete Institute and American Iron and Steel Institute documents indicated that the beams were overstressed for construction loads. After the collapse, part of the structure was rebuilt using thicker beams. For the reconstruction, the …