Deep dive on warping of steel deck

A recent SDII conference paper provides additional insight on how bare steel deck diaphragms warp under shear. The paper provides a simple beam finite element model as an alternative to the analytical expressions that are found in Appendix 1 of AISI S310. This provides first steps towards using AISI methods for warping prediction on more general deck cross-sections.

The paper was presented at the 2018 Annual Stability Conference of the Structural Stability Research Council held in conjunction with the AISC North American Steel Construction Conference. click here for the full text.