圆形钢管混凝土柱的基础连接件

钢管混凝土柱促进了经济且快速的建设方式。两者的组合增大了结构钢和混凝土的强度和刚度,使用钢管作为模板和核心混凝土的约束减少了工作量。钢管混凝土柱为混凝土和钢材提供了一个共生关系来缓和其不良的失效模式,激发了各种材料的最优性能(混凝土和钢材)。综合作用下,混凝土抗压强度和刚度增大,延缓和抑制了钢管的局部屈曲,并提升其延展性和抗力。矩形钢管混凝土柱与圆形钢管混凝土柱都被应用于实际建设生产中,但由于圆形钢管混凝土柱可以提供更强的混凝土约束和综合作用而拥有更好的性能。对于圆形钢管混凝土柱来说,其缺少可靠的、有延展性的连接件。对这方面的研究调查进行介绍,包括关于圆形钢管混凝土柱柱脚或钢筋混凝土地基柱的简便经济的连接件的开发设计过程,并介绍和评价了桥梁结构中的桩帽与宽桩梁。这种连接件不需要销子和内在的加固就能将钢管与基脚或桩梁相连接。试验分析研究和评估了这种连接件的非弹性抗震性能,并确立了设计标准。将1个装配这种连接件的钢管混凝土柱的抗震性能与传统的钢筋混凝土柱相比较。结果显示,此种连接件进一步增强了组合柱的承载力。这种形式在地震荷载下能提供极佳的延展性和非弹性变形能力,甚至在大侧移情况下也能减轻损害。

Foundation Connections for Circular Concrete-Filled Tubes

Concrete filled steel tubes (CFTs) promote economical and rapid construction. They offer increased strength and stiffness relative to structural steel and reinforced concrete. The steel tube serves as formwork and reinforcement to the concrete fill, thereby reducing the labor requirements. CFT components encourage the optimal behavior of each material (concrete and steel) while providing a symbiotic relationship between the two to mitigate undesirable failure modes. The fill increases the compressive strength and stiffness, delays and restrains local buckling of the tube, and enhances ductility and resistance if composite action is achieved.Both rectangular and circular CFT have been employed, but circular CFT provide better performance, because they provide increased confinement of the concrete and composite action. A missing component for circular CFT construction is reliable and ductile connections. The research described herein that investigated and develops design procedures for simple and economical connections of circular CFT piers or columns to reinforced concrete foundations, pile caps and wide cap beams (bridge construction) is presented and evaluated. The connection requires no dowels or internal reinforcement connecting the tube to the footing or cap beam. Experiments and analytical studies evaluate the inelastic seismic performance and establish design criteria for the connection. The seismic performance of a CFT column and connection assembly is compared to a conventional reinforced concrete column. The research shows that the proposed connection develops the full capacity of the composite column. The assembly provides excellent ductility and inelastic deformation capacity under seismic loading while mitigating damage even at larger drift demands.