The CFS-NHERI Connection Tests aimed to quantify the cyclic behavior of steel-sheet-to-framing fastener details used in cold-formed steel (CFS) shear walls. Specimens captured different screw layouts, CFS ply thicknesses, that were later embedded in wall-line and building-scale models.
Highlights include:
- Establishing backbone curves and hysteretic behavior for nonlinear simulations in OpenSees and Abaqus.
Visit the program website for media, technical papers and reports produced during the CFS-NHERI connection experiments. This research was lead by Dr. Zhidong Zhang during his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University.
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF) CMMI Awards #1663569 and #1663348, Collaborative Research: Seismic Resiliency of Repetitively Framed Mid-Rise Cold-Formed Steel Buildings.
Publications
Journal Articles
(J2)
(2022). Cyclic Experiments on Steel Sheet Connections for Standard CFS Framed Steel Sheet Sheathed Shear Walls.
ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, 148(2), 04021261
(J1)
(2021). Cyclic Experiments on Isolated Steel Sheet Connections for CFS Framed Steel Sheet Sheathed Shear Walls with New Configurations.
Engineering Structures, 244, 112805
Conference Papers
(C5)
(2020, October). Cyclic Performance of Steel Sheet Connections for CFS framed Steel Sheet Sheathed Shear Walls.
Proceedings of the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium Colloquium.
Presentations & Posters
(P2)
(2020, March). Material, Component, and System Level Experimental Efforts within CFS NHERI.
2020 National Earthquake Conference, San Diego, CA.
Datasets
(D1)
(2021). Cyclic Experiments on Isolated Steel Sheet Connections for CFS Framed Steel Sheet Sheathed Shear Walls.
In CFS-NHERI: Seismic Resiliency of Repetitively Framed Mid-Rise Cold-Formed Steel Buildings. DesignSafe-CI.
