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Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Volume 66, Issue 4, April 2010, Pages 487-495

Evaluation of passive confinement in CFT columns

Walter Luiz Andrade de Oliveira a, Silvana De Nardin b, Ana Lúcia H. de Cresce El Debs a , Mounir Khalil El
Debs a
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Abstract
This paper presents the experimental results of 32 axially loaded concrete-filled steel tubular
columns (CFT). The load was introduced only on the concrete core by means of two high
strength steel cylinders placed at the column ends to evaluate the passive confinement
provided by the steel tube. The columns were filled with structural concretes with
compressive strengths of 30, 60, 80 and 100 MPa. The outer diameter ( ) of the column was
114.3 mm, and the length/diameter ratios considered were 3, 5, 7 and 10. The wall
thicknesses of the tubes were 3.35 mm and 6.0 mm, resulting in diameter/thickness
ratios of 34 and 19, respectively. The force vs. axial strain curves obtained from the tests
showed, in general, a good post-peak behavior of the CFT columns, even for those columns
filled with high strength concrete. Three analytical models of confinement for short concrete-
filled columns found in the literature were used to predict the axial capacity of the columns
tested. To apply these models to slender columns, a correction factor was introduced to
penalize the calculated results, giving good agreement with the experimental values.
Additional results of 63 CFT columns tested by other researchers were also compared to the
predictions of the modified analytical models and presented satisfactory results.

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Concrete-filled steel tubular columns; Confinement effect; Analytical models of

confinement; Experimental analysis; Circular cross section

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