Diapositiva 1 - Landolfo Raffaele

The research is devoted to define a proposal of designprocedure for CFS housing in seismic area, that can be readilyused by designers.The study has been focused on the seismic behaviour of CFSshear walls sheathed with oriented strand board and/or gypsumboard panels.The first part of the experimental phase has been carried out ontwo, nominally identical, prototypes. The specimens have beentested under monotonic and cyclic loading conditions.In a second phase, a wide experimental campaign aiming atcharacterizing the shear behaviour of different sheathings andsheathing-to-CFS profiles connections has been carried out.The theoretical and experimental results have been accountedfor the proposal of a seismic design procedure.