Session Dates
07 Nov 2018 - 08 Nov 2018
Abstract
This paper presents research focused on understanding the observed behavior of cold-formed steel (CFS) metal buildings during Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall Friday, August 25, 2017 between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, Texas. Through the Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance (GEER) association (funded by the National Science Foundation) a team of structural engineers and researchers performed rapid and detailed assessments of structural damage caused by the hurricane. The National Science Foundation gathered photographs, damage assessments sheets, and three-dimensional laser point cloud data of severely damaged cold-formed steel industrial buildings. The Port Aransas County Airport experienced severe damage to several cold-formed steel small aircraft hangars. The failure of one of these hangars is the basis for this investigation. The laser point cloud data was utilized to create a model of a hangar structure in MASTAN2. Multiple analyses were completed in MASTAN2 to determine the failure mode and damage propagation mechanisms. Also, analyses were completed to determine the behavior of the undamaged structure and the structure after loss of the hangar doors. The objective of this research is to determine the behavior of cold-formed steel structures under extreme loads to form recommendations for future construction. Furthermore, this work is among the first to use post-disaster data to examine structural cold-formed steel performance.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
Wei-Wen Yu International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures 2018
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2018 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Early, Adrianna M.; Mohammadi, M. Ebrahim; Wood, Richard L.; and Peterman, Kara D., "Behavior of Cold-Formed Steel Metal Industrial Buildings" (2018). CCFSS Proceedings of International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (1971 - 2018). 1.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/isccss/24iccfss/session8/1
Behavior of Cold-Formed Steel Metal Industrial Buildings
This paper presents research focused on understanding the observed behavior of cold-formed steel (CFS) metal buildings during Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall Friday, August 25, 2017 between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor, Texas. Through the Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance (GEER) association (funded by the National Science Foundation) a team of structural engineers and researchers performed rapid and detailed assessments of structural damage caused by the hurricane. The National Science Foundation gathered photographs, damage assessments sheets, and three-dimensional laser point cloud data of severely damaged cold-formed steel industrial buildings. The Port Aransas County Airport experienced severe damage to several cold-formed steel small aircraft hangars. The failure of one of these hangars is the basis for this investigation. The laser point cloud data was utilized to create a model of a hangar structure in MASTAN2. Multiple analyses were completed in MASTAN2 to determine the failure mode and damage propagation mechanisms. Also, analyses were completed to determine the behavior of the undamaged structure and the structure after loss of the hangar doors. The objective of this research is to determine the behavior of cold-formed steel structures under extreme loads to form recommendations for future construction. Furthermore, this work is among the first to use post-disaster data to examine structural cold-formed steel performance.
