Cold-Formed Steel Design

Cold-Formed Steel Design, 5th Edition, is a textbook that explains the construction and structural behavior of cold-formed steel members and connections. The volume examines structural performance from both theoretical and experimental viewpoints.

Chapters address types of steels, critical mechanical properties, fundamental buckling modes, and common terminology. The text details design approaches for flexural members, compression members, closed cylindrical tubes, and beam–columns using ASD, LRFD, and LSD methods.

Updated to reflect the 2016 AISI S100 specification and the 2015 AISI S240 framing standard, the 2019 edition incorporates the Direct Strength Method directly into its primary design provisions.