Advances in the design and evaluation of cold-formed steel (CFS) shear walls have significantly enhanced ... highlighting the critical influence of construction details on ductility and failure ...

Those tests revealed that in nearly all cases, developed strength of the shear walls ... from cold-formed steel, and the system effect is significant across the board, requiring new approaches in ...

to assess how individual cold-formed steel components bear loads. She has tested components such as beam-columns and local connections in the JHU lab, and this past summer, she tested wall-to ...

A 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building will soon be put to the test on an earthquake simulator at the University of California San Diego to see how well it can withstand earthquakes.