About The Project

Research Objectives 

To develop a new generation of materially efficient lightweight steel framing (LSF) structural systems for economic multi-storey mass housing by addressing the following research objectives:  

1. Develop a hybrid LSF system appropriately designed and detailed for low- to high-rise multi storey buildings under gravity and lateral loads accounting for SLS and ULS criteria.  

2. Develop a strain limit design method for CFS sections to capture post-yield behaviour and accumulated strain effects leading to more accurate and cost-effective design solutions.  

3. Assess the performance of the developed LSF floor-to-wall connection modules through full scale physical tests of various framing configurations.    

4. Create an integrated element-structure level performance-based optimization framework for the proposed hybrid LSF system.   

5. Demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed hybrid LSF system in terms of cost and sustainability compared to conventional systems through a series of practical case studies.