Spliced joints are used widely in retrofitting traditional timber structures, especially in heritage conservation applications where as much original material as possible needs to be retained. However, in practice this method is mainly applied based on experience, and there is a lack of understanding and quantification of the mechanical behaviour of retrofitted timber members. This paper presen...

(RCS) frames which are systems that dwell of concrete columns and steel beams , by optimizing the act of compressive strength of concrete and bending strength of steel due to not only a decrease in building weight in comparison to concrete structures but also having a better action in long spans frames . In this paper for analysis RCS behavior, a category of nonlinear Push Over analyses were ...

Concrete-filled double skin steel tubular columns consisting of two hollow tubes and concrete infill between their interspace, have become popular in modern construction owing to high ultimate load, less self-weight good ductility. The weight these can be reduced further by using lightweight aluminium alloy instead ones. This paper experimentally numerically studied the flexural buckling behavi...

This paper presents analysis tools to be used in quantifying the demand and capacity of composite frames composed of rectangular concrete-filled steel tube (RCFT) columns and steel girders. Worldwide experimental research on RCFT members were consolidated into a database. The experimental results stored in the database were used to quantify the capacity of RCFT members at multiple levels of loa...

This paper presents the development and experimental validation of a multizard bridge pier concept, i.e., a bridge pier system capable of providing an adequate level of protection against collapse under seismic and blast loading but not acting simultaneously . A multicolumn pier-bent with concrete-filled steel tube CFST columns is the proposed concept, and the adequacy of this system is experim...

in order to lighten the prestressed concrete solid members, nowadays, it is possible to make use of the advantage of hpc (fc'>60 mpa) as well as replacing the solid section with a psc thin-walled section for certain members such as circular and box columns. using the strength theory of aci, a numerical procedure along with a computer program was developed for the analysis of such sections ...

A convenient family member of composite columns is concrete filled double skin tube (CFDST); it contains two tubes concentric steel and also shell that there between them. The superior or equal potential offering characteristics CFDST are more than counterparts classical (CFST). purposes the present study to provide experimental investigation results into prestressed load-carrying capacity colu...

Recently, steel fibre reinforced polymers (SFRP) sheets have been introduced for the repair and rehabilitation of concrete structures. Few researchers studied the behaviour of the concrete columns wrapped with SFRP sheets; however, several critical parameters such as the cost and ductility effectiveness of the SFRP wrapped concrete columns have been lightly addressed. Thus, the main objective o...