Buckling of Slender Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes with Compliant Interfaces

Effect of the Concrete Strength on the Concrete-Steel Bond in Concrete Filled Steel Tubes

In this study, the concrete-steel bond strength of concrete filled cylindrical steel tubes has been experimentally investigated. 22 short, high strength and normal concrete filled circular steel tubes were tested. Push-out test was carried out as the common method to evaluate the bond carrying capacity. Four different concrete mixes were used in preparing the specimens. The steel tubes were w...

Numerical Analysis of Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubes

Determination of Buckling Loads from Triaxial Load Tests of Slender Concrete-filled Tube Beam-columns

This paper briefly describes efforts at determining buckling loads of slender concrete-filled tube beam-columns. Although utilizing state-of-the-art equipment and controllers, unexpected difficulties were encountered on extracting buckling loads for the specimens due to (a) frictional forces in the actuators, (b) large initial bidirectional imperfections, (c) initial stresses due to constructio...

Inelastic Behavior of Concrete-filled Thin-walled Steel Tubular Columns Subjected to Local Buckling

This paper is concerned with the inelastic behavior of axially loaded concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns subjected to local buckling. A nonlinear fiber element analysis program accounting for local buckling effects is developed for predicting the ultimate strength and ductility of concrete-filled thin-walled steel tubular columns. The effects of local buckling are taken into cons...

Non-linear Analysis of Multi-hazard Performance of Cylindrical Concrete Filled Steel Tubes Bridge Piers

Advanced finite element techniques are used to investigate the multi-hazard (earthquake and blast) performance of Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes (CFSTs) and Concrete Filled Double Skinned Tubes (CFDSTs) for bridge engineering applications. Specimens of both sections are analyzed using the finite element package LS-DYNA under similar seismic and blast loading. First, behavior of CFSTs recorded in s...