Moment Connections to Circular Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Columns
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- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Structural Engineering
- Vol. 130 (2) , 213-222
Abstract
As part of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research Program on Composite/Hybrid Structures (1992), investigations were carried out at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and University of Illinois, to develop moment connection details and accompanying design provisions for connecting steel beams to circular concrete filled tube (CFT) columns. This paper provides an overview of the work carried out. Work at the University of Illinois consisted of evaluating the inelastic response of six possible connection details. Six large-scale connections were tested to failure using the quasi-static test method. Connections welded to the skin of the tube created large distortions of the tube wall, and were susceptible to weld, flange, or tube wall fracture. External diaphragm and continuous web details exhibited more favorable inelastic behavior, but the flexural strength of these connections began to deteriorate relatively early in the imposed deformation history. Continuing the flanges through the composite column showed ...Keywords
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