Concretefilled Doubleskin Tubular Columns （钢管混凝土双层管状列）.pdf

Australian Earthquake Engineering Society 2012 Conference, Dec 7-9, Gold Coast, Qld Concrete-filled Double-skin Tubular Columns with External Steel Rings 1 2 C.X. Dong and J.C.M. Ho ABSTRACT Concrete-filled-steel-tube columns have been adopted widely for column construction of tall buildings due to its excellent confining effect. However, the central part of concrete in CFST columns have relatively small contribution towards bending and torsion resistance, which can be effectively replaced by another hollow steel tube with much smaller area without reducing the load- carrying capacity due to composite action. This structural form with the in-between annulus of inner and outer steel tubes filled with concrete is called concrete-filled double-skin tubular (CFDST) columns. Nonetheless, similar to CFST columns, the imperfect steel-concrete interface bonding of the outer tube will take place in the initial elastic stage because steel dilates more than concrete. It consequently reduces the confinement and stiffness of the CFST columns. To resolve the problem, it is proposed in this study to use external steel ring confinement to restrict the dilation of the outer steel tube in CFDST columns. A series of uni-axial compression tests was performed on CFDST columns with and without external steel rings. From the test results, it was found that the external steel rings could effectively restrict the dilation of the outer steel tube, and improve significantly the uni-axial strength, elastic strength and ductility of CFDST columns when compa