AISI Publishes Three New Cold-Formed Steel Research Reports
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published three new cold-formed steel research reports: 1) “AISI RP21-1: Development of Design Tables for the Cold-Formed Steel Cross-Sections in AISI D100,” 2) “AISI RP21-2: Development of CUFSM Hole Module and Design Tables for the Cold-Formed Steel Cross-Sections with Typical Web Holes in AISI D100,” and 3) “AISI RP21-3: Tutorials for MASTAN2 and Related Validation.” All three research reports are available for free download at https://www.cfsei.org/research-reports.
“AISI RP21-1: Development of Design Tables for the Cold-Formed Steel Cross-Sections in AISI D100” provides the local and distortional buckling strengths for the cross-sections included in “AISI D100, Cold-Formed Steel Design Manual.” An Excel spreadsheet containing the buckling strengths of typical C- and Z-Sections can be downloaded via the link provided in the report. The research was conducted by Damir Akchurin and Zhanjie Li at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York.