Author: Ben Schafer

For buildings designed to current U.S. standards, in seismic events, do structural engineers expect damage in building diaphragms, or not?

SDII investigator Ben Schafer released a report: “Research on the Seismic Performance of Rigid Wall Flexible Diaphragm Buildings with Bare

The SDII team released a report: “Development of Steel Deck Diaphragm Seismic Design Provisions for ASCE 41/AISC 342” in the

The SDII Workshop will be held on January 10, 2019 at Hilton San Francisco Airport Bayfront, 600 Airport Blvd, Burlingame, CA

A series of cyclic push-out tests on specimens with shear studs and steel deck with concrete fill is initiating in

Concrete-filled steel deck is employed as a diaphragm in countless structural steel buildings. However, the available experimental data on cyclic

The NSF-sponsored team focusing on seismic collectors in steel buildings, an effort highly compatible with the overall SDII initiative –

The performance of steel-to-steel connectors in shear are important for cold-formed steel deck diaphragms, but also for a variety of

Recent testing conducted by NBM Technologies provides cyclic characterization of both deck-to-deck sidelap and deck-to-frame structural connectors. The tests cover

Simulation of steel structures has advanced markedly in the finite element age and today models that include buckling and yielding