Engineering researchers have provided the building blocks necessary for enabling performance-based design for cold-formed steel buildings, structures that have shown in shake-test experiments at the ...

The first industry standards and codes for cold-formed steel were written in 1946 and are mostly based on empirical data, ... it becomes a stud that can withstand ten thousand pounds of loading.

Cold formed steel studs (CFSS), typically used in nonstructural partition walls, were studied to determine if they could be used to laterally restrain braces against buckling and thus enhance their ...

The Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), Pittsburgh, has released the first industrywide Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for cold-formed steel studs and track manufactured in the United States and ...

Fox said when he started in the industry in the 1980s, the use of cold-formed steel in building construction was typically limited to non-load bearing components, such as interior-wall studs that ...

Steel Tek Framing, a leader in cold-formed steel solutions, is revolutionizing the construction industry with the launch of its mobile cold-formed steel factory—the first of its kind in the Midwest.

Cold formed steel studs (CFSS), typically used in nonstructural partition walls, were studied to determine if they could be used to laterally restrain braces against buckling and thus enhance their ...