Seismic characteristics of K-braced cold-formed steel shear walls

M Zeynalian, HR Ronagh, S Hatami - Journal of Constructional Steel …, 2012 - Elsevier
Detailed investigation of the lateral performance of K-braced cold-formed steel structures
and their response modification coefficients, R factor, are presented in this paper. A total of …

An experimental investigation on the lateral behavior of knee-braced cold-formed steel shear walls

M Zeynalian, HR Ronagh - Thin-Walled Structures, 2012 - Elsevier
Experimental investigations were conducted to evaluate the lateral seismic characteristics of
light-weight knee-braced cold-formed steel structures. In all, four full-scale 2.4× 2.4 m2 …

A numerical study on seismic performance of strap-braced cold-formed steel shear walls

M Zeynalian, HR Ronagh - Thin-walled structures, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents a non-linear finite element analyses in order to optimize the seismic
characteristics of strap-braced cold formed steel shear walls enhanced with brackets in the …