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Bending Behavior of Steel Pipe Girders Filled with Ultralight Mortar |
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| Authors: | Shun-ichi Nakamura Tetsuya Hosaka Kenji Nishiumi |
| Affiliation: | 1Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Tokai Univ., 1117 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka?259-1292, Japan. 2General Manager, Railway Engineering, 2-14-2 Nagatacho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan?100-0014. 3Senior Researcher, Nippon Steel Corporation, Futtsu, Chiba, Japan?113-8656. |
| Abstract: | Bending behavior of steel pipes filled with ultralight mortar was studied by bending tests using a steel pipe, steel pipes filled with ultralight mortar, and steel pipes filled with light aggregate concrete and normal concrete. The steel pipe model filled with normal concrete had 1.8 times higher bending strength than the steel pipe model. The bending behavior of the steel pipe filled model with ultralight mortar was not improved when the compressive strength of the ultralight mortar was less than 1 MPa. However, ductility was much improved when the compressive strength was over 5 MPa, and the ultimate steel strain was more than double of the steel pipe model. The strains of steel and concrete in all the models were proportional to the distance from the neutral axis until the steel plate yielded. A simple analytical method was proposed to calculate the bending moments of the ultralight mortar filled steel pipes. The calculated values agreed very well with the test results. |
| Keywords: | Bridges composite Steel pipes Concrete Mortars Bending |