Ruofan Gao , Zhi Sun , Jiaqi Liu , Bing Fu , Hong Yuan
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Abstract
Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been widely used with other conventional construction materials (e.g., steel and concrete) to form novel new structural members, in which the advantages of each component can be fully utilized. This paper proposed a variant form of double-skin tubular columns (i.e., double-skin tubular-encased confined-concrete bar columns (DTCBCs)), which is composed of an outer steel tube, an inner steel tube, multiple small-diameter concrete-infilled glass FRP (GFRP) tubes and mortar that fills the spaces between these tubes. In order to justify the advantages of the proposed hybrid columns, a series of axial compression tests were conducted on seven DTCBCs along with a double steel tube hollow column as the control specimen with three key parameters being examined. An advanced finite element (FE) model has then been proposed and validated through the test results obtained in this study in various terms. The test results indicate that the DTCBCs exhibit with the load carrying capacity and deformability higher than its DSTC counterpart by up to 73.62 % and 1.8 times. The proposed FE model is able to produce precise predictions for DTCBCs and provide detailed information on the stress and strain distributions of the constituent components of the DTCBCs.
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