A MixedFinite Element Approach for PerformanceBased Design of Rectangular ConcreteFilled.pdf

A Mixed-Finite Element Approach for Performance-Based Design of Rectangular . d Concrete-Filled Steel Tube (RCFT) Frames e v r e s e r Cenk Tort s t h Staff Engineer g i r Skidmore, Owings, Merrill LLP l l a Chicago, USA ; y cenk.tort@ l n o e s Jerome F. Hajjar u l Professor a n o University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign s r e Urbana, USA p r jfhajjar@ o F . E C ABSTRACT S A t A comprehensive computational model to simulate the nonlinear seismic response of h g i composite frames with rectangular concrete-filled steel tube (RCFT) beam-columns r y and steel girders and braces is presented in this work. A three-dimensional fiber- p o C based distributed plasticity mixed finite element formulation is introduced. The finite 2. element formulation of RCFT beam-columns was derived with separate translational 1 / degrees-of-freedoms (DOFs) defined for the concrete core and the steel tube to 3 0 / simulate the slip deformation that is typical for composite members. Cyclic 2 1 n constitutive relations were derived accounting for the interactions taking pl