A 10-story building made from cold-formed steel held up to a generated earthquake by the earthquake shake table at UC San ...

UC San Diego’s earthquake shake table will test a ten story building built from a lightweight recycled steel to possibly expand its use for tall structures in earthquake zones.

BuildSteel, an alliance of steel and construction industry organizations, recently released “Cold-Formed Steel Framing: Engineering the Details of Your Next Project.” The e-book explores several ...

UC San Diego is preparing to use its outdoor shake table in Scripps Ranch to determine whether 10-story buildings made of cold-formed steel can withstand massive earthquakes.

Testing of two full-scale cold-formed steel framed buildings under seismic excitation at the University at Buffalo Structural Engineering Earthquake Simulation Lab (SEESL) was performed in the summer ...

But cold-formed steel offers more than an insurance advantage. It has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any construction material.

The UC San Diego shake table, located on an industrial lot off Pomerado Road, is the only outdoor facility of its kind in the ...

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published three new cold-formed steel framing research reports: 1) “RP15-3: Advancing Seismic Simulation of Cold-Formed Steel Framed Buildings,” 2) ...

My Barndo Plans, part of Home Plans, has initiated the construction of three barndominiums, with a notable project in Mosca, ...

Cold Formed Steel (CFS), also known as light gauge steel (LGS), construction is a practical, code approved solution to many of the limitations that builders face today when using traditional ...

Cold-formed steel is lightweight and shines like aluminum because it possesses a galvanized coating. Kara Peterman, a third-year Ph.D. student on the project, ...