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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 50, Number 5, March 10 2024 , pages 515-529
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2024.50.5.515
 


Assessment of cold-formed steel screwed beam-column conections: Experimental tests and numerical simulations
Merve Sagiroglu Maali, Mahyar Maali, Zhiyuan Fang and Krishanu Roy

 
Abstract
    Cold-formed steel (CFS) is a popular choice for construction due to its low cost, durability, sustainability, resistance to high environmental and seismic pressures, and ease of installation. The beam-column connections in residential and mediumrise structures are formed using self-drilling screws that connect two CFS channel sections and a gusset plate. In order to increase the moment capacity of these CFS screwed beam-column connections, stiffeners are often placed on the web area of each single channel. However, there is limited literature on studying the effects of stiffeners on the moment capacity of CFS screwed beam-column connections. Hence, this paper proposes a new test approach for determining the moment capacity of CFS screwed beam-column couplings. This study describes an experimental test programme consisting of eight novel experimental tests. The effect of stiffeners, beam thickness, and gusset plate thickness on the structural behaviour of CFS screwed beam-column connections is investigated. Besides, nonlinear elasto-plastic finite element (FE) models were developed and validated against experimental test data. It found that there was reasonable agreement in terms of moment capacity and failure mode prediction. From the experimental and numerical investigation, it found that the increase in gusset plate or beam thickness and the use of stiffeners have no significant effect on the structural behaviour, moment capacity, or rotational capacity of joints exhibiting the same collapse behaviour; however, the capacity or energy absorption capacities have increased in joints whose failure behaviour varies with increasing thickness or using stiffeners. Besides, the thickness change has little impact on the initial stiffness.
 
Key Words
    complex networks; mathematical simulation; mechanical behavior; nanotechnology
 
Address
Merve Sagiroglu Maali and Mahyar Maali:1)Civil Engineering Department, Erzurum Technical University, Erzurum, Turkey
2)Maali Çelik Ar-Ge Dan
 

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