Experimental Behavior of a Full-Scale Housing Section Built with Cold-Formed Steel Shear Wall Panels under Horizontal Monotonic and Cyclic Loading

This paper presents the results of an experimental study on behavior cold- formed steel shear wall panel (CFSSWP) with fibrocement panels as sheathing, when it is subjected in-plane deformations and flexural deformation under perpendicular monotonically increasing horizontal loads longest plane. A full-scale housing section was built three walls a ceiling using commonly used construction details in El Salvador. The strength stiffness specimen tested overcame significantly critical demand imposed by technical design standards this country. Additionally, simplified finite element model defined objective to analyze stresses components. numerical were similar tested.