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Flexural Behavior Of Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubes Under High-Strain Rate Impact Loading, Yaohua Deng, Christopher Tuan
Flexural Behavior Of Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubes Under High-Strain Rate Impact Loading, Yaohua Deng, Christopher Tuan
Christopher Y. Tuan
Nine simply supported circular steel concrete-filled tubes (CFTs), two circular steel posttensioned concrete-filled tubes (PTCFTs), and one circular steel fiber–reinforced concrete-filled tube (FRCFT) have been tested in an instrumented drop-weight impact facility. The weight and the height of the drop-weight were varied to cause failure in some test specimens. The failure modes and local damages in those specimens have been investigated extensively. Failure in the steel tubes was commonly tensile facture or rupture along the circumference. Concrete core in the impact area commonly crushed under compression and cracked under tension. The use of prestressing strands and steel fibers significantly restrained …
Flexural Strength Analysis Of Non-Post-Tensioned And Post-Tensioned Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubes, Yaohua Deng, Christopher Tuan, Q. Zhou, Y. Xiao
Flexural Strength Analysis Of Non-Post-Tensioned And Post-Tensioned Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubes, Yaohua Deng, Christopher Tuan, Q. Zhou, Y. Xiao
Christopher Y. Tuan
Concrete-filled circular steel tubes (CFT) have recently gained significant attention for their enhanced strength and ductility over the conventional steel and reinforced concrete construction. The concrete compressive strength is significantly increased by the lateral confinement provided by the steel tube and local buckling of the steel tube is restrained by the concrete infill. This paper investigates the further enhancement of these composite actions due to post-tensioning the concrete cores inside circular steel tubes. The flexural behavior of a post-tensioned CFT as well as a non-post-tensioned CFT was studied experimentally and analytically. A numerical algorithm for predicting the moment capacities of …