1 story building with cold formed steel framing

Design of the two-storРµСљСљFS buildings incorporates a РІР‚Сљstate of the practiceРІР‚Сњ ledger framing system that attaches floor and roof joists to the inside flanges of the load-bearing studs via a combination of track and clip angles. The firstphase of the study focuses on the design, instrumentation plan, and preliminary analysis of full-scale two-story CFS frame buildings that are tested on shake tables atUniversity at Buffalo NEES Facility in the second phase. Thispaper presents the first-phase of a multi-year project aimed at generating knowledgeand tools needed to increase the seismic safety of CFS frame buildings. Existingbuilding codes for the CFS frame buildings are based solely on the stiffness of thelateral-load resisting frames and do not explicitly incorporate systems response. However, systems level response and component contributions as well as their interactions such as those from lateral-load resisting systems,floor diaphragms, studs to track connections, etc., are not fully understood. Madsen31Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore, MD 21218 PH (410) 516-6482 FAX (410) 516-7473 and Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,Baltimore, MD 21218 PH (410) 516-6265 FAX (410) 516-7473 Project Engineer, Devco Engineering Inc., Corvallis, OR 97339 PH (541)757-8991 FAX (541) 757-9885 email: cold-formed steel (CFS) framing is an effective building solution for lowand mid-rise structures. Seismic design of multi-story cold-formed steel buildings:the CFS-NEES archetype buildingN.

1 story building with cold formed steel framing