Sheathed Cold-Formed Steel Studs under Axial and Lateral Load

Cold-formed steel structures: Research review 2013–2014

“…Considerable work has taken place in the area of compression members including angles, sections with perforations and holes, sections built-up from single members, wall stud member with sheathing attached and eccentric loading (beam–columns). The references are for angles (Shifferaw and Schafer, 2014; Silvestre et al, 2013), members with dimples and other indentations, perforations and holes (Ekmekyapar et al, 2014; Kubde and Sangle, 2014; Kulatunga et al, 2014; Kulatunga and Macdonald, 2013, 2014; Macdonald and Kulatunga, 2014; Nguyen et al, 2014; Xu et al, 2014), Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) strengthening (Kalavagunta et al, 2013), for members built-up from channel sections (Crisan et al, 2014a; Dabaon et al, 2014; Fratamico and Schafer, 2014; Li et al, 2014b; Piyawat et al, 2013; Selvaraj and Madhavan, 2014; Ting and Lau, 2014a, 2014b), for fixed-ended columns (Dinis et al, 2014c; Gunalan and Mahendran, 2013b), for sheathed members (Peterman and Schafer, 2014) and for members in combined bending and compression (Li et al, 2014a; Torabian et al, 2014). Clearly, the most recent research is directed away from unperforated and single members to more complex arrangements including perforated members.…”

Simulation study on shear resistance of new cold-formed-steel-framed shear walls sheathed with steel sheet and gypsum boards

“…Cold-formed steel (CFS) structure has been widely used in residential buildings due to its efficient fabrication, reduced site work, short time of construction and good structural performance (Liu et al, 2018; Yu, 2010; Yu and Chen, 2011). The CFS-framed shear wall with steel sheathing is the main load-bearing and anti-lateral force component of CFS building (Chen et al, 2019; Peterman and Schafer, 2014; Shakeel et al, 2019). Due to the complex construction of CFS shear walls, many experimental studies have been conducted to determine the shear performance of such shear walls.…”

Seismic response assessment of architectural non-structural LWS drywall components through experimental tests

“…In particular, the knowledge and prediction of the seismic performance represents a complex issue that could be investigated through experimental activities. Indeed, over the last few years, along with several studies on architectural non-structural LWS drywall components, which were mainly focused on fire behaviour [4][5], effect on the structural response [6][7][8][9][10][11], joining technologies [12][13], diaphragm action [14][15] and behaviour under axial and lateral loads [16][17], a large number of research studies were also undertaken on investigating the seismic behaviour. Generally, these researches included the study of the local and global behaviour: seismic behaviour of board-to-frame fixings adopted for realizing partitions and façades [18][19][20][21]; seismic behaviour under monotonic, quasi-static cyclic and dynamic loadings in the in-plane [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] and outof-plane [35][36] directions of partitions and façades; study of the interaction between partitions and façades and/or ceilings and surrounding elements by means of shake table tests on full-scale one or multi-storeys buildings completed with architectural non-structural components [37][38][39][40][41][42]…”