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Axial behavior of the steel reinforced lightweight aggregate concrete (SRLAC) short columns

  • Mostafa, Mostafa M.A. (Structural Engineering Department, School of Civil Engineering, Chang'an University) ;
  • Wu, Tao (Structural Engineering Department, School of Civil Engineering, Chang'an University) ;
  • Liu, Xi (Structural Engineering Department, School of Civil Engineering, Chang'an University) ;
  • Fu, Bo (Structural Engineering Department, School of Civil Engineering, Chang'an University)
  • Received : 2019.04.16
  • Accepted : 2021.05.06
  • Published : 2021.06.10
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Abstract

The composite steel reinforced concrete (SRC) columns have been widely used in Structural Engineering due to their good performances. Many studies have been done on the SRC columns' performances, but they focused on the ordinary types with conventional configurations and materials. In this study, nine new types of steel reinforced lightweight aggregate concrete (SRLAC) short columns with cross-shaped (+shaped and X-shaped) steel section were tested under monotonically axial compressive load; the studied parameters included steel section ratio, steel section configuration, ties spacing, lightweight aggregate concrete (LWAC) strength, and longitudinal bars ratio. From the results, it could be found that the specimens with larger ties ratio, concrete strength, longitudinal bars ratio, and steel section ratio achieved great strength and stiffness due to the excellent interaction between the concrete and steel. The well-confined concrete core could strengthen the steel section. The ductility and toughness of the specimens were influenced by the LWAC strength, steel section ratio, and longitudinal bars ratio; in addition, larger ties ratio with smaller LWAC strength led to better ductility and toughness. The load transfer between concrete and steel section largely depends on the LWAC strength, and the ultimate strength of the new types of SRLAC short columns could be approximately predicted, referring to the codes' formulas of ordinary types of steel reinforced concrete (SRC) columns. Among the used codes, the BS-5400-05 led to the most conservative results.

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Acknowledgement

The first author would like to thank the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) and the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education for supporting his Ph.D.degree scholarship. The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding supports for this research by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51878054, 51578072, 51708036, and 51908048), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (300102288401), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2017JQ5092).

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