LIGHT GAGE STEEL INFILL PANELS IN MULTISTORY STEEL FRAMES.

Abstract

A research program at Cornell University to assess the suitability of light gage steel infill panels for providing additional stiffness in multistory structures is described. The research was focused on developing the capability to analyze the infill-frame combination, making use of the finite element displacement method of analysis, and to verify the analytical results experimentally and to assess the behavior of the panel-frame combinations at loads for which elastic analysis is not valid.