
With support from the National Science Foundation, Benjamin W. Schafer, professor in the Department of Civil Engineering has created the Steel Diaphragm Innovation Initiative.
The goal of the Steel Diaphragm Innovation Initiative is to advance the seismic performance of steel floor and roof diaphragms used in steel buildings through better understanding of diaphragm-structure interaction, new design approaches, and new three-dimensional modeling tools that provided enhanced capabilities to designers utilizing steel diaphragms in their building systems. The Initiative is managed by the Cold-Formed Steel Research Consortium, of which Schafer is the director.
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