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Steel and Composite Structures Volume 8, Number 3, June 2008 , pages 179-200 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2008.8.3.179 |
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Experimental studies and numerical analysis of the shear behavior of fin plates to tubular columns at ambient and elevated temperatures |
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M.H. Jones and Y.C. Wang
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| Abstract | ||
| This paper reports the results of a recent experimental study into the behavior of welded finplate connections to both hollow and concrete filled tubular (CFT) columns under shear. Experiments have been performed at both ambient and elevated temperatures with the aid of an electric kiln. The observed failure modes include fracture of the fin plate and tearing out of the tube around the welds. By considering the results of previously published research, the current design method for similar connections under purely tensile load, in CIDECT Guide 9, based on a deformation limit of 3% of the tube width is shown to be inadequate when evaluating the ultimate strength of such connections. By comparing the results from the current test program which failed in the fin-plate with Eurocode guidance for failure of a fin-plate alone under shear and bending load it is shown that the column face influences the overall connection strength regardless of failure mode. Concrete in-fill is observed to significantly increase the strength of connections over empty specimens, and circular column specimens were observed to exhibit greater strength than similarly proportioned square columns. A finite element (F.E.) model, developed using ABAQUS, is presented and validated against the experimental results in order that extensive parametric tests may be subsequently performed. When validating the model against elevated temperature tests it was found that using reduction factors suggested in published research for the specific steel grades improved results over applying the generic Eurocode elevated temperature steel strength reduction factors. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| concrete filled tubes; fire resistance; joints; elevated temperature; fin plate; experiments;finite element modelling; | ||
| Address | ||
| M.H. Jones and Y.C. Wang: University of Manchester, Manchester, UK | ||