CFSEI to Host Webinar on Steel Trusses, Blast Loads
The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) will host a webinar on “Cold-Formed Steel Trusses and Blast Loads” on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. EDT. The webinar is designed for architects, engineers, building officials and contractors. Participants are eligible for 1.5 PDHs.
Cold-formed steel trusses provide a durable and economical roof framing solution for buildings with pitched roofs, yet are not included as a conventional construction option in UFC 4-010--01, DoD Minimum Antiterrorism Standards for Buildings. This webinar will provide an overview of issues that should be considered when specifying or designing cold-formed steel trusses to resist air blast loading, including:
The webinar will be conducted by Mark Weaver, a Senior Engineer at Karagozian & Case Inc. (K&C), where he utilizes engineering and computational methods to analyze and design a wide variety of structural components to resist the effects of blast and impact loads. Mr. Weaver has designed new blast-resistant window, door, wall and roof systems using single degree-of-freedom and high-fidelity physics-based finite element models.