Cold Formed Steel Metal Sheet Shearwalls

The guide is available for purchase in electronic format only at the aisi steel store.

Cold formed steel metal sheet shearwalls.

Aisi s240 15 north american standard for cold formed steel structural framing. New cold formed steel shear wall design guide. May 7 2020 schafer jhu edu cfs nheri. The american iron and steel institute aisi has released the cold formed steel shear wall design guide 2019 edition aisi d113 19 which provides discussion and design examples of steel sheet and wood structural panel sheathed cold formed steel framed shear wall assemblies used to resist wind and seismic forces.

Cold formed steel framed wood panel or steel sheet sheathed shear wall assemblies. Cfsei s shear wall design guide helps engineers specifiers and architects develop a better understanding of the latest code requirements with respect to lateral design using cold. Generally for similar wall. Cold formed steel cfs can be used for both structural and non structural building systems including as the designated lateral force resisting.

The guide is available for purchase in electronic format only at the aisi steel store at https shop steel. This design guide provides a discussion of steel sheet and wood structural panel sheathed cold formed steel framed shear wall assemblies used to resist wind and seismic forces. Table 1 is for wind loads and table 3 is for seismic loads. Modeling sheathed shear walls.

The cold formed steel engineers institute cfsei technical council of the steel framing alliance sfa announced today the publication of a new design guide. And aisi s400 15w s 16 north american standard for seismic design of cold formed steel structural systems with supplement 1. These values correspond to those given by aisi for steel diaphragm construction with mechanical fasteners see specification for the design of cold formed steel structural members american iron and steel institute 1996.