Author: Benjamin Schafer

2023 was a busy year for the TW Group as usual! Below is a list of 2023 journal articles, links

Our long-running multi-institutional cold-formed steel earthquake engineering project: CFS-NHERI is looking forward to a monumental 2024. In 2024 we will

Around 2010 I had the idea to create a research consortium around cold-formed steel. I thought we could combine all

The TW Group was busy as always working on advancing steel, particularly cold-formed steel, building structures research. Here is a

Thanks to the excellent research of TW Group members such as Ph.D. Candidate Victoria Ding, Visiting Faculty Scholars Dr. Sandor Ádány, Dr.

A lot happened in 2021 for Professor Schafer, here are some articles that summarize the latest. NSF grant on wind

Thin-walled Structures Group Ph.D. student Astrid Fischer took home the Best Student Presentation Award at the 2020 Cold-Formed Steel Structures

Today the TW Group released their Final Report on the AISI and SFIA sponsored effort to investigate the strength of

Johns Hopkins University Thin-walled group researchers Zhidong Zhang and Ben Schafer released a test report today investigating the fastener-level force-deformation

Thin-walled group researchers Shahab Torabian and Ben Schafer released a new report today assessing the potential for system reliability benefits