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Professor Wei-Wen Yu

Short Biography:
Wei-Wen Yu, Ph.D., P.E. is recognized in the engineering community for his defining research in cold-formed steel design. He is the author of the premier textbook on cold-formed steel, “Cold-Formed Steel Design,” which is now in its fourth edition. In 1990, he founded the Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, which was named for him in 2000. He retired from the AISI Committee on Specifications in 2010 after 50 years of service.

Wei Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures (CCFSS):
During the period from 1971 through 2014, twenty-two International Specialty Conferences on Cold-Formed Steel Structures were held at the University of Missouri - Rolla (now Missouri University of Science & Technology), Orlando Florida and in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Selected Publications:
Book:
Wei-Wen Yu and Roger A. LaBoube, Cold-Formed Steel Design, 4th Edition, Wiley, 2007, 512 pages

Journal Articles:
W.W. Yu and C.S. Davis, “Buckling behavior and post-buckling strength of perforated stiffened compression elements”, First International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures, August 1971
Yu, W.W., and Davis, C.S. (1973). "Cold-formed steel members with perforated elements." ASCE J Struct Div, 99(ST10), 2061-2077.
LaBoube, R. A. and Yu, W. W. (1978). Cold-formed steel beam webs subjected primarily to shear. Research Report, American Iron and Steel Institute, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, USA.
Shan, M., LaBoube, R.A., Yu, W. (1994). “Behavior of Web Elements with Openings Subjected to Bending, Shear and the Combination of Bending and Shear”, Civil Engineering Study Structural Series, 94-2, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri.
Yu, Wei-Wen, Wolford, D. S.; Johnson, A. L., 1996. Golden Anniversary of the AISI Specification, 13 International specialty conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures, St. Louis, MO, 1-3, pp. 5.

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