Advances in Cold-Formed Steel Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Cold-formed steel (CFS) members are increasingly utilised in the construction fields in recent decades, due to their superior advantages of strength-to-weight ratios, prefabrication convenience (i.e., easy erection and installation), the possibility of mass production, and the economical long-term costs. The utilisation of CFS members can, meanwhile, be considered a ‘green and sustainable operation’, as it can reduce the carbon emissions to the environment, compared with other construction materials. Moreover, CFS members enable various novel cross-section types to be fabricated and, thus, can be used in different occasions, e.g., portal frames, space grid systems, rack structures, and photovoltaic brackets structures.

This Special Issue of Buildings, entitled “Advances in Cold-formed Steel Structures”, aims to showcase the state-of-the-art investigations on CFS members and structures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Cold-formed high strength steel members;
• Cold-formed stainless steel members;
• Cold-formed built-up section members;
• Composite CFS members;
• Machine-learning-based design for CFS members;
• Joints and connections in CFS members;
• Optimal design of CFS structures;
• Seismic response of CFS structures;
• Fire behaviour of CFS structures;

Dr. Junfeng Zhang
Dr. Hongwei Ma
Dr. Fangfang Liao
Prof. Dr. Xin Cheng
Prof. Dr. Ke Ke
Dr. Andi Su
Guest Editors

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