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Nonlinear Analysis Of Biaxially Loaded Rectangular Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Slender Beam-Columns, Vipulkumar I. Patel, Qing Quan Liang, Muhammad N. S Hadi Jan 2017

Nonlinear Analysis Of Biaxially Loaded Rectangular Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Slender Beam-Columns, Vipulkumar I. Patel, Qing Quan Liang, Muhammad N. S Hadi

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Rectangular concrete-filled stainless steel tubular (CFSST) beam-columns utilized as supporting members for building frames may experience axial compression and biaxial moments. A numerical simulation considering the local buckling effects for thin-walled rectangular CFSST slender beam-columns has not been performed. This paper reports a stability modeling on the structural characteristics of rectangular CFSST slender beam-columns accounting for different strain-hardening of stainless steel under tension and compression. The influences of local buckling are considered in the simulation utilizing the existing effective width formulations. The developed numerical model simulates the strength interaction and load-deflection behavior of CFSST slender beam-columns. Comparisons of computed results …


Case Studies On Response Of Laterally Loaded Nonlinear Piles, Wei Dong Guo Jan 2014

Case Studies On Response Of Laterally Loaded Nonlinear Piles, Wei Dong Guo

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Closed-form solutions for laterally loaded free and fixed-head piles in elastic-plastic media have been developed and implemented into a spreadsheet program called GASLFP. Underpinned by a generic limiting force profile (LFP), the solutions offer an expeditious and sufficiently accurate method for predicting response of lateral piles. They also allow parameters to be deduced using measured pile response, as is evident in the study to date on -70 test (elastic) piles. The solutions also well capture the impact of structure nonlinearity of pile body by employing reduced pile bending stiffness (EpIp). The law of the reduction in EpIp, however, needs to …


Limiting Force Profile And Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles In Sand, Hongyu Qin, Wei Dong Guo Jan 2014

Limiting Force Profile And Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles In Sand, Hongyu Qin, Wei Dong Guo

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

In this paper, closed-form solutions were used to analyze the response of eight laterally loaded rigid piles obtained from field test, centrifuge test, and 1g laboratory model tests, allowing the modulus of subgrade reaction and the profile of limiting lateral resistance force per unit length (LFP, pu profile) to be back calculated. The study shows that (1) with a constant modulus of subgrade reaction, a linear increasing LFP and elasto-plastic p ~ y curves, the response of laterally loaded rigid piles can be well predicted in the framework of load transfer approach; (2) the gradient of the LFP is 0.64 …


Nonlinear Analysis Of Axially Loaded Cicular Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Short Columns, Vipulkumar Patel, Qing Quan Liang, Muhammad N. S Hadi Jan 2014

Nonlinear Analysis Of Axially Loaded Cicular Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Short Columns, Vipulkumar Patel, Qing Quan Liang, Muhammad N. S Hadi

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

The experiments indicate that stainless steels in tension deform plastically more than stainless steels in compression. Therefore, the strain hardening of stainless steels in compression is much faster than that of stainless steels in tension. The full-range two-stage constitutive model for stainless steels assumes that stainless steels follow the same stress-strain behavior in compression and tension, which may underestimate the compressive strength of stainless steel tubes. This paper presents a fiber element model incorporating the recently developed full-range three-stage stress-strain relationships based on experimentally observed behavior for stainless steels for the nonlinear analysis of circular concrete-filled stainless steel tubular (CFSST) …


Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles With Rotational Constraints, Wei Dong Guo Jan 2013

Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles With Rotational Constraints, Wei Dong Guo

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Elastic-plastic, closed-form solutions were developed recently by the author, to capture the nonlinear response of laterally loaded rigid piles. Presented in compact form, the solutions are convenient to use, and sufficiently accurate despite using only two input parameters of the net limiting force per unit length pu along the pile, and a subgrade modulus k. Nevertheless, piles may be subjected to limited cap-restraints or loading below ground surface, which alter the response remarkably.This paper provides explicit expressions for estimating loading capacity of anchored piles and develops new solutions for lateral piles with cap-rotation by stipulating a constant pu or a …


Nonlinear Analysis Of Biaxially Loaded High Strength Rectangular Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Slender Beam-Columns, Part I: Theory, Qing Quan Liang, Vipulkumar Ishvarbhai Patel, Muhammad N. S Hadi Jan 2012

Nonlinear Analysis Of Biaxially Loaded High Strength Rectangular Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Slender Beam-Columns, Part I: Theory, Qing Quan Liang, Vipulkumar Ishvarbhai Patel, Muhammad N. S Hadi

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

This paper presents a new numerical model for the nonlinear inelastic analysis of biaxially loaded high strength thin-walled rectangular concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) slender beam-columns. The numerical model considers the effects of progressive local buckling, initial geometric imperfections, high strength materials and second order. The accurate fiber element method is used to model the inelastic behavior of composite cross-sections. Theoretical models are developed that simulate the load-deflection responses and strength envelopes of thin-walled rectangular CFST slender beamcolumns under biaxial loads. New computational algorithms based on the M􀂗􁈷 ller's method are developed to adjust the depth and orientation of the neutral …


Response Of 20 Laterally Loaded Piles In Sand, Wei-Dong Guo, Bi Tang Zhu Jan 2010

Response Of 20 Laterally Loaded Piles In Sand, Wei-Dong Guo, Bi Tang Zhu

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Closed-form solutions and their associated spreadsheet program (GASLFP) were developed by the first author for laterally loaded free- head piles in elastic-plastic media. The solutions show behaviour of a laterally loaded pile is dominated by net limiting force per unit length (LFP) fully mobilised along the pile to a depth called slip depth. They are characterised by three parameters of Ng, α o and n (to describe the LFP) and the soil shear modulus (Gs). Conversely, these parameters may be deduced by matching the predicted with measured response. To facilitate practical design, in this paper, the input values of Ng, …


Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles In Cohesionless Soil, Wei-Dong Guo Jan 2008

Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles In Cohesionless Soil, Wei-Dong Guo

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In this paper, limiting force profile for laterally loaded rigid piles in sand and is differentiated from the on-pile force profile, from which elastic-plastic solutions are established and presented in explicity expressioins. Nonlinear responses of the piles are characterized by slip depths mobilized from mudline and the pile-tip. At the states of tip-yield and rotation point yield, expressions for some critical depths are developed, which allow the on-pile force profiles to be constructed. The solutions and the expressions are developed concerning a constant subgrade modulus (k) and a linearly incresing modulus with depth (Gibson k), respectively. capitalized on three measurable …