Cold formed steel joints and structures -A review

Cold formed steel structures are structural products that are made by forming plane sheets of steel at an ambient temperature into different shapes that can be used to convince structural and functional requirements. In years, higher strength materials and a wider range of structural applications have caused a most important development in cold-formed steel relative to the common heavier hot rolled steel structural members. Therefore, the understanding of cold formed steel performance becomes an important issue to be studied. This paper holds three works. First, it reviews an introduction on cold formed steel structures. Second, it summarizes general design considerations of cold formed steel constructions. Finally, it offers a review on research of joints and structures for cold formed steel.