Abstract
In general, shear walls with corrugated thin steel sheets in residential cold-formed steel framing have undesirable lateral deformation capacity as a result of the buckling of the corrugated sheets or pull-out of the screws used to connect the corrugated sheets to the cold-formed steel members. The purpose of the present study is to provide corrugated shear walls with a large deformation capacity by designing "bearing-failure critical" screw joints. The validity of this design was experimentally investigated using a series of in-plane cyclic racking shear tests of the corrugated sheet shear walls. The tests showed that the local bearingfailures provide a shear wall with a stable and ductile behavior.
