Development of seismic force modification factors for cold-formed steel strap braced walls
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Seismic force modification factors to be used in conjunction with the National building code of Canada are recommended for two cold-formed steel (CFS) concentrically braced frame categories; limited ductility (LD) (R d = 2.0, R o = 1.3, height limit 20 m) and conventional construction (CC) (R d = 1.25, R o = 1.3, height limit 15 m, not permitted in high seismic zones). Nonlinear time history dynamic analyses of multi-storey CFS framed structures were carried out following an approach adopted from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) P695 on the quantification of building seismic performance factors. Input earthquake records (both synthetic and recorded) were scaled to the site specific uniform hazard spectra for Vancouver, Calgary, Québec City, and Halifax. The calculated inelastic storey drifts and the failure probabilities from the FEMA P695 incremental dynamic analysis procedure showed that the Canadian seismic design procedures for type LD and CC strap braced walls in the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) S213 North American CFS lateral design standard are acceptable for the multi-storey buildings that were analysed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".