Lightweight steel concrete structures (LSCS) - an innovative energy-efficient building structure type that can be used both as load-bearing and enclosing one. They consist of profiled usually galvanized cold-bent filled with a monolithic foam 400kg/m 3 density fiber cement sheets sheathing. These in industrial civil buildings internal external bearing wall slabs, roof covering. According to the...

Abstract Canada employs a prescriptive-based code for residential buildings. The minimum requirements as prescribed in the 2015 National Building Code were developed based on historical climate which was assumed static. It is now evident that changing and it anticipated wind-driven rain events will be more frequent, of longer duration increased intensity. These changes may affect durability wal...

The material and connection behaviour in sheathed cold-formed steel wall systems are investigated the present paper through experimentation. A total of 103 component tests was performed, including six tensile coupon tests, nine on screws tension, shear, 36 plasterboard orientated strand board (OSB), 25 pull-through 18 push-out (shear) tests. oriented were tested both compression as well longitu...

A pale yellow liquid was found in the vacuum scattering vessel which neutron detector is installed on BL02 spectrometer J-PARC MLF. The substance characterized as phthalic acids, are known plasticizers for poly(vinyl chloride) cable sheathing. leakage mechanism of needs to be urgently clarified, they contaminate and could cause background increase experimental data. We purchased commercially av...

This paper investigates the role of sheathing-to-framing connection ductility in evaluation structural q-behaviour factor for Light-Frame Timber (LFT) buildings, by means Incremental Dynamic Analyses (IDA). approach allows to consider nonlinear cyclic behaviour walls, which cannot be taken into account with sta...