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Technical Articles

Design Guide for Cold-Formed Steel Beams with Web Penetration
This design guide (PDF format file) encourages innovative design and development of cold-formed steel roof and floor trusses.

Design of Cold-Formed Load Bearing Steel Systems and Masonry Veneer/Steel Stud Walls
Technical Instruction prepared by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Durability of Cold-Formed Steel Framing Members
This document (PDF format file) presents an analytical method that would make it possible to predict the structural behavior of cold-formed steel studs in load bearing walls under the conditions set forth in the ASTM EM119 Standard Fire Test. (

Monotonic Tests of Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls with Openings
This document (PDF format file) presents the results of monotonic load tests of 40-foot long, cold-formed steel-framed shear walls with openings.

Prescriptive Method for Residential Cold-Formed Steel Framing
A guideline (PDF format file) for the construction of one- and two-family residential dwellings which provides a complete prescriptive approach for building typical homes with cold-formed steel framing.

Steel Forging Ahead As Preferred Framing Material
Steel-frame homes have proliferated throughout the United States, thanks to the decreasing quality and increasing price of wood.

Welding - Design Procedures and Inspections
Technical Instruction (PDF format file) prepared by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.