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Steel and Composite Structures Volume 31, Number 1, April10 2019 , pages 1-12 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2019.31.1.001 |
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Structural behavior of the stiffened double-skin profiled composite walls under compression |
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Ying Qin, Yong-Wei Li, Xu-Zhao Lan, Yu-Sen Su, Xiang-Yu Wang and Yuan-De Wu
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| Abstract | ||
| Steel-concrete composite walls have been proposed and developed for applications in various types of structures. The double-skin profiled composite walls, as a natural development of composite flooring, provide structural and architectural merits. However, adequate intermediate fasteners between profiled steel plates and concrete core are required to fully mobilize the composite action and to improve the structural behavior of the wall. In this research, two new types of fasteners (i.e., threaded rods and vertical plates) were proposed and three specimens with different fastener types or fastener arrangements were tested under axial compression. The experimental results were evaluated in terms of failure modes, axial load versus axial displacement response, strength index, ductility index, and load-strain relationship. It was found that specimen with symmetrically arranged thread rods sustained more stable axial strain than that with staggered arranged threaded rods. Meanwhile, vertical plates are more suitable for practical use since they provide stronger confinement to profiled steel plate and effectively prevent the steel plate from early local buckling, which eventually enhance the composite action and increase the axial compressive capacity of the wall. The calculation methods were then proposed and good agreement was observed between the test results and the predicted results. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| profiled composite wall; compressive loading; structural performance; strength; strain analysis | ||
| Address | ||
| Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of Ministry of Education, and National Prestress Engineering Research Center, School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. | ||