A critical review of cold-formed built-up members: Developments, challenges, and future directions

Y Dai, K Roy, Z Fang, GM Raftery, K Ghosh… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of cold-formed members in structural engineering is increasing because of their
considerable structural and environmental advantages, such as low weight, ease and speed …

A novel machine learning model to predict the moment capacity of cold-formed steel channel beams with edge-stiffened and un-stiffened web holes

Y Dai, K Roy, Z Fang, B Chen, GM Raftery… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel machine learning model, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), was used for the
purpose of evaluating the moment capacity of cold-formed steel (CFS) channel beams with …

Experimental investigation on cold-formed steel lipped channel beams affected by local-distortional interaction under non-uniform bending

MT Chen, B Young, AD Martins, D Camotim… - Thin-Walled …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reports an experimental investigation, carried out at The University of Hong
Kong, on the behaviour of cold-formed steel lipped channel beams affected by local …

Moment capacity of back-to-back cold-formed steel channels with edge-stiffened holes, un-stiffened holes, and plain webs

B Chen, K Roy, Z Fang, A Uzzaman, G Raftery… - Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of cold-formed steel (CFS) back-to-back channels as floor joists is increasing
steadily, and such beams often include un-stiffened holes for installation of services, which …

Moment capacity of cold-formed channel beams with edge-stiffened web holes, un-stiffened web holes and plain webs

B Chen, K Roy, A Uzzaman, JBP Lim - Thin-Walled Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
Cold-formed steel (CFS) channel beams are an increasingly popular choice as load-
carrying members in building structures. Such channel beams often include web holes for …

Effect of web perforations on end-two-flange web crippling behaviour of roll-formed aluminium alloy unlipped channels through experimental test, numerical …

Z Fang, K Roy, Y Dai, JBP Lim - Thin-Walled Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Aluminium alloy has recently become popular in New Zealand's construction sector as a
sustainable building material. However, in roll-formed aluminium alloy (RFA) channel …

Flexural capacity of gapped built-up cold-formed steel channel sections including web stiffeners

K Roy, HH Lau, TCH Ting, B Chen, JBP Lim - Journal of Constructional …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper describes an experimental and numerical investigation to study the flexural
capacity of back-to-back gapped built-up cold-formed steel (CFS) channel sections under …

Structural behaviour of back-to-back cold-formed steel channel sections with web openings under axial compression at elevated temperatures

Z Fang, K Roy, D Lakshmanan, P Pranomrum… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the structural behaviour of cold-formed steel (CFS) back-to-back
(BTB) channel sections subjected to axial compression at elevated temperatures. The stress …

Flexural behaviour of back-to-back built-up cold-formed steel channel beams: Experiments and finite element modelling

K Roy, HH Lau, TCH Ting, B Chen, JBP Lim - Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
In cold-formed steel (CFS) structures, the application of back-to-back built-up channel
beams is increasing steadily. The increasing demand of CFS sections as a cost-effective …

Uniformly bent CFS lipped channel beams experiencing local-distortional interaction: Experimental investigation

MT Chen, B Young, AD Martins, D Camotim… - Journal of Constructional …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper describes a test campaign concerning the behaviour and strength of cold-formed
steel (CFS) lipped channel (LC) beams experiencing local-distortional (LD) interaction made …