INNOVATION AND SEISMIC DESIGN FOR COLD-FORMED STEEL

CONTINUING EDUCATION - 1 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOUR

OUTLINE

Understanding the seismic performance of cold-formed steel (CFS) framing requires more than just an exploration of isolated shear walls. Over the last 10-plus years, first with the efforts around CFS-NEES and today with CFS-NHERI, our teams have been learning and translating CFS systems knowledge into improved standards and design tools for cold-formed steel engineers. This talk will summarize some of the critical findings from past work, highlight advancements and changes in seismic design for CFS, and provide a preview of the capstone CFS-NHERI testing of a 10-story CFS-framed building on the shake tables at the University of California San Diego currently scheduled to initiate in Spring 2023.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Benjamin W. Schafer, Ph.D., P.E.
Johns Hopkins University

Benjamin W. Schafer is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is director of both the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium and Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a consulting principal at SGH. He serves on a variety of American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) standards committees related to steel structures and is known for his expertise in the design of thin-walled cold-formed steel structures. He is a dedicated and oft-injured runner, facilitator for a middle school maker program, and currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife and child.