Session Dates
24 Aug 2012 - 25 Aug 2012
Abstract
The first Student Competition on Cold-Formed Steel Design (CFS Competition) was held at the University of North Texas in 2011. The CFS Competition was initiated by Cheng Yu through a National Science Foundation CAREER award. The objective of the CFS Competition is to promote higher education in coldformed steel structural design and to encourage students to use creative thinking skills to solve engineering problems. The subject of the first CFS Competition is to design an optimal thin-walled cold-formed steel cross section under several pre-defined restrictions. The CFS Completion received total 78 entries from students in 5 different countries. The judging panel considered the elastic buckling performance, the constructability, and the essay in ranking the designs. This paper presents the details of the competition problem, the results, and findings which are helpful for future competitions.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures
Meeting Name
21st International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2012 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Yu, Cheng and Moen, Cristopher, "The 1st Student Competition on Cold-formed Steel Design" (2012). CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018). 4.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/isccss/21iccfss/21iccfss-session3/4
The 1st Student Competition on Cold-formed Steel Design
The first Student Competition on Cold-Formed Steel Design (CFS Competition) was held at the University of North Texas in 2011. The CFS Competition was initiated by Cheng Yu through a National Science Foundation CAREER award. The objective of the CFS Competition is to promote higher education in coldformed steel structural design and to encourage students to use creative thinking skills to solve engineering problems. The subject of the first CFS Competition is to design an optimal thin-walled cold-formed steel cross section under several pre-defined restrictions. The CFS Completion received total 78 entries from students in 5 different countries. The judging panel considered the elastic buckling performance, the constructability, and the essay in ranking the designs. This paper presents the details of the competition problem, the results, and findings which are helpful for future competitions.
