scholarly journals Comparative Study of CFRP-Confined CFST Stub Columns under Axial Compression

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Guo ◽  
Yufen Zhang

This paper presented a comparative study of concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) stub columns with three different confinement types from carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP): outer circular CFRP, inner circular CFRP, and outer square CFRP. The compressive mechanism and physical properties of the composite column were analyzed firstly aiming at investigating the confinement effect of CFRP. Ultimate axial bearing capacity of these three CFRP-confined CFST columns was calculated based on Unified Theory of CFST and elastoplastic limit equilibrium theory, respectively. Meanwhile, the corresponding tests are adopted to validate the feasibility of the two calculation models. Through data analysis, the study confirmed the ultimate strength calculation results of the limit equilibrium method were found to be more reliable and approximate to the test results than those of Unified Theory of CFST. Then axial bearing capacity of the pure CFST column was predicted to evaluate the bearing capacity enhancement ratio of the three types of composite columns. It was demonstrated that the averaged enhancement ratio is 16.4 percent, showing that CFRP-confined CFST columns had a broad engineering applicability. Through a comparative analysis, this study also confirmed that outer circular CFRP had the best confinement effect and outer square CFRP did better than inner circular CFRP. The confinement effect of CFRP increased with the decrease of concrete strength, and it was proportional with relative proportions of CFRP and steel under the same concrete strength.

Author(s):  
Ana Piquer Vicent ◽  
David Hernández-Figueirido ◽  
Carmen Ibáñez Usach

In the past, many works to study the mechanical behaviour of concrete filled steel tubular (CFST) stub columns have been conducted. Some of the applications of these composite columns oblige to meet higher requirements of ductility and load-bearing capacity. Traditionally, circular and rectangular tubes have been employed but recently new cross-sectional shapes of these composite columns are being designed and investigated with the aim of optimizing their mechanical behaviour. In this line, concrete-filled round-ended steel tubular columns (CFRT) have appeared as an alternative. However, the number of experimental programs to characterize their mechanical response is still scarce. In order to contribute to the test results database, in this paper an experimental study of 9 concrete-filled round-ended steel tubular stub columns is presented. All the specimens were designed with the same cross-sectional round-ended shape and have the same dimensions. In this program, both normal and high-strength concrete were employed as infill. During the tests, the columns were subjected to axial compression loads but under different eccentricities. The influence of eccentricity and concrete strength on the ultimate load bearing capacity of the concrete-filled round-ended steel tubular are discussed. Besides, the combined action of both components in this type of concrete-filled tubes as well as the effect of the concrete infill are studied.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 6860
Author(s):  
Jun Wang ◽  
Yuxin Duan ◽  
Yifan Wang ◽  
Xinran Wang ◽  
Qi Liu

To investigate the applicability of the methods for calculating the bearing capacity of high-strength steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) composite columns according to specifications and the effect of confinement of stirrups and steel on the bearing capacity of SRC columns. The axial compression tests were conducted on 10 high-strength SRC columns and 4 ordinary SRC columns. The influences of the steel strength grade, the steel ratio, the types of stirrups and slenderness ratio on the bearing capacity of such members were examined. The analysis results indicate that using high-strength steel and improving the steel ratio can significantly enhance the bearing capacity of the SRC columns. When the slenderness ratio increases dramatically, the bearing capacity of the SRC columns plummets. As the confinement effect of the stirrups on the concrete improves, the utilization ratio of the high-strength steel in the SRC columns increases. Furthermore, the results calculated by AISC360-19(U.S.), EN1994-1-1-2004 (Europe), and JGJ138-2016(China) are too conservative compared with test results. Finally, a modified formula for calculating the bearing capacity of the SRC columns is proposed based on the confinement effect of the stirrups and steel on concrete. The results calculated by the modified formula and the finite element modeling results based on the confinement effect agree well with the test results.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 2418-2434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Zhou ◽  
Ben Young

Experimental and numerical investigations of concrete-filled double-skin aluminium stub column with a circular hollow section as the outer skin and a square hollow section as the inner skin are presented in this article. A test program was carried out to study the influences of aluminium tube geometric dimensions and concrete strength on structural performance and strength of composite columns. A series of composite columns was tested on outer circular hollow section tubes and inner square hollow section tubes; the spaces between them had been filled with concrete of different nominal cylinder strengths of 40, 70 and 100 MPa. The tubes were fabricated by extrusion using 6061T6 heat-treated aluminium alloy having a nominal 0.2% proof stress of 240 MPa. A non-linear finite element model was developed and verified against experimental results. The test and numerical results were compared with the design strengths to evaluate the applicability of the design rules in the American specifications for aluminium and concrete structures. In addition, the proposed design equations, developed by the authors for concrete-filled double-skin aluminium tubular stub columns with circular hollow section as both outer and inner skins, were used to calculate the design strengths and compared with the experimental and numerical results obtained in this study. The proposed design equations also predicted the ultimate strengths of the concrete-filled double-skin aluminium tubular stub columns accurately with circular hollow section as the outer skin and square hollow section as the inner skin.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yicen Liu ◽  
Fei Lyu ◽  
Faxing Ding ◽  
En Wang ◽  
Yunlong Xu ◽  
...  

The mechanical behaviors of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) are upgraded by outer steel tube confinement, and the performance of recycled aggregate concrete-filled steel tubular (RACFST) columns is similar to that of the traditional concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) columns. The purpose of this study is to investigate the behaviors of recycled aggregate concrete-filled rectangular steel tubular (RACFRST) stub columns under axial loading. Three-dimensional finite element (FE) models were established, which utilized a triaxial plastic-damage constitutive RAC model considering the replacement ratio of recycled aggregates. The finite element analysis results indicated that the lessened ultimate bearing capacity of RACFRST stub columns compared with their traditional concrete infilled counterparts was mainly due to the weakened confinement effect and confinement efficiency. A simplified formula of the bearing capacity of concentrically loaded RACFRST stub columns was proposed. The cross-sectional stress nephogram was reasonably simplified by the limited state of infilled concrete. The basics of proposed formula were the equilibrium condition and the superposition method. Finally, the formula for the bearing capacity of RACFRST stub columns was evaluated by comparing its accuracy and feasibility to some design formulae proposed by specialists and some design codes of different regions.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
En Wang ◽  
Yicen Liu ◽  
Fei Lyu ◽  
Faxing Ding ◽  
Yunlong Xu

Recycled aggregate concrete-filled steel tubular (RACFST) columns are widely recognized as efficient structural members that can reduce the environmental impact of the building industry and improve the mechanical behavior of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). The objective of this study is to investigate the behavior of recycled aggregate concrete-filled circular steel tubular (RACFCST) stub columns subjected to the axial loading. Three-dimensional finite element (FE) models were established using a triaxial plastic-damage constitutive model of RAC considering the replacement ratio of recycled aggregates. The FE analytical results revealed that the decreased ultimate bearing capacity of RACFCST stub columns compared with conventional concrete infilled steel tubular (CFST) columns was mainly due to the weakened confinement effect and efficiency. This trend will become more apparent with the larger replacement ratio of recycled aggregates. A practical design formula of the ultimate bearing capacity of RACFCST stub columns subjected to axial load was proposed on the basis of the reasonably simplified cross-sectional stress nephogram at the ultimate state. The derivation process incorporated the equilibrium condition and the superposition theory. The proposed equation was evaluated by comparing its accuracy and accessibility to some well-known design formulae proposed by other researchers and some widely used design codes.


2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 1546-1551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shui Xing Zhou ◽  
Yue Ma ◽  
Dong Sheng Sun ◽  
Lu Li ◽  
Cheng Wu

According to the unified theory of general concrete filled steel tube, this paper puts forward a constitutive relationship model of the self-stressed concrete filled steel tube, which was verified by experiments and finite element methods. On the basis of the above, the influences on the bearing capacity of self-stressed CFST members were analyzed about the strength grades and magnitudes of self-stress of confined concrete. The results show that the bearing capacity of the self-stressed concrete filled steel tube members will be improved with the increase of the magnitudes of self-stress and concrete strength grades. Compared to the general CFST in the same condition, the maximum of the bearing capacity can be approximately enhanced 20%.


2020 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
Ruoyang Zhou ◽  
Xiaoxiong Zha

The steel tube concrete columns with steel reinforcement cages, steel plates and steel tubes has been used in super high-rise buildings, which are called concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns with internal stiffeners. Based on the theory of limit equilibrium, the unified equation for the axial bearing capacity of the CFST columns with internal stiffeners is obtained. The derived equation in this study can provide reference for the future engineering applications.


2010 ◽  
Vol 163-167 ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Bai Ling Chen ◽  
Lian Guang Wang ◽  
Guo Peng Qin

GFRP tube filled with steel-reinforced concrete composite column, GSRC, is a new kind of composite column, in which the (shaped steel) reinforcing steel bar is set and the concrete is poured into GFRP tube. Under the action of eccentric loading, the damage signs of the composite columns with smaller and larger eccentricity were respectively that GFRP tube of compressive zone was crushed and the fiber of GFRP tube of tensional zone was ruptured. The tight hoop effect of the concrete given by GFRP tube only existed in compressive zone, and the restriction to the concrete of tensile zone was unobvious. The shaped steel inside GFRP tube had a positive effect on the bending rigidity and the bearing capacity of the member. Using the limit equilibrium theory, the calculation formula of the bearing capacity of GSRC subjected to eccentric loading was created. The calculated results agreed well with the experimental ones.


Author(s):  
Feiyu Liao ◽  
Chao Hou ◽  
W. J. Zhang ◽  
J. Ren

This paper presents a series of tests on sea sand concrete-filled stainless steel tubular (SSCFST) stub columns under axial compression, where the main test parameters include type of fine aggregates (river sand, desalted sea sand and sea sand), steel ratio, and concrete strength. The failure mode, axial load versus axial shorten response, cross-sectional strength of the SSCFST specimens are investigated and compared with those of traditional composite columns with normal concrete. The confinement effect between stainless tube and the sea sand concrete is also evaluated. High strength and good ductility was observed for the tested SSCFST stub columns. In general, when being used as the concrete core in a composite column, differences of confinement behaviour between sea sand concrete and normal concrete are not significant, indicating the potential adoption of SSCFST columns in practice.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunli Zhou ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Xiaolong Ruan ◽  
Xueying Tang

In order to study the axial compression behavior of concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns filled with high titanium slag, a total of 32 specimens, including normal CFST columns, half-high titanium slag CFST columns, and full-high titanium slag CFST columns, were used as experimental samples in this study. The axial compression behaviors of high titanium slag CFST columns and normal CFST columns with various parameters such as length–diameter ratio, strength grade of concrete, strength grade of steel tube, steel content ratio, etc., were evaluated and compared through axial compression testing under monotonic static loading. The results showed that the axial compressive behaviors of high titanium slag CFST columns with various length–diameter ratios were not significantly different from those of normal CFST columns, both of which showed good axial compression performance. In addition, the length–diameter ratio limit between short and medium long column was from 3.5 to 4.4. The length–diameter ratio was the main factor influencing the shape of load–deformation curve of CFST columns. The casing hoop coefficient also had a great influence on the bearing capacity of short columns, while the influence on that of middle and long columns was not obvious. In the end, the bearing capacities of all specimens were calculated by bearing capacity formulas in European EC4, American AISC360-10, and Chinese GB50936-2014 standards. The calculated values were in good agreement with the test results.


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