Abstract: This paper presents the measured responses of components—blast wall, shear walls, deep beam and bottom chord bracing, and a roof truss—of an instrumented full-scale cold-formed steel (CFS)-framed building subjected to ...

Abstract: This paper presents the design and measured response of an instrumented 5.49-m×4.88-m single-story cold-formed steel (CFS)-framed building with CFS gabled roof trusses subjected to open-arena blast testing. Although extensive ...

Abstract: In Burkina Faso, surface drip irrigation is promoted as a water-saving technique to overcome the decline of agricultural water through the increase of water productivity. However, there is little proof up to now about the ...