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Flexural Behavior of Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubes under High-Strain Rate Impact Loading
Journal of Structural Engineering
  • Yaohua Deng, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Christopher Y. Tuan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2012
Abstract

Nine simply supported circular steel concrete-filled tubes (CFTs), two circular steel posttensioned concrete-filled tubes (PTCFTs), and one circular steel fiber–reinforced concrete-filled tube (FRCFT) have been tested in an instrumented drop-weight impact facility. The weight and the height of the drop-weight were varied to cause failure in some test specimens. The failure modes and local damages in those specimens have been investigated extensively. Failure in the steel tubes was commonly tensile facture or rupture along the circumference. Concrete core in the impact area commonly crushed under compression and cracked under tension. The use of prestressing strands and steel fibers significantly restrained the concrete tension cracks in the PTCFT and FRCFT specimens, respectively. The experimental results are analyzed in the context of principles of energy and momentum conservation.

Citation Information
Yaohua Deng and Christopher Y. Tuan. "Flexural Behavior of Concrete-Filled Circular Steel Tubes under High-Strain Rate Impact Loading" Journal of Structural Engineering Vol. 138 Iss. 3 (2012) p. 449 - 456
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher_tuan/37/