Seismic design of buildings using repetitively framed CFS (CFS) members has largely been enabled through a series of dedicated tests conducted on shear walls and compiled for convenient use in the AISI-S213 standard, supported through the seismic response modification coefficients and procedures in ASCE 7. …
Author Archives : Benjamin Schafer, Ph.D., P.E.
About the author ⁄ Benjamin Schafer, Ph.D., P.E.
Benjamin Schafer, Ph.D., P.E., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is Director of the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium, Chair of the Structural Stability Research Council, and an active member of the AISI Committee on Specifications and Committee on Framing Standards. Benjamin can be reached at Schafer@jhu.edu.