Experimental Investigation on the Seismic Behavior of Ultra-High Performance Concrete Filled Steel Tubular Columns

ABSTRACT

In this work, a total of nine ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) filled steel tubular columns (UHPCFSTs) were fabricated and tested under cyclic loading. The results indicated that UHPCFSTs mainly exhibited flexural failure mode, compression-flexure failure mode and welding line fracture, and it changed from flexural failure mode to compression-flexure failure mode when the axial compression ratios exceeded 0.3. The elastic and ultimate drift ratios of UHPCFSTs were within the ranges of 1.37–2.05% and 2.38–4.32%, respectively, and the equivalent viscous damping coefficients were within the range of 0.197–0.358 when they failed, UHPCFSTs could sever as good choices in high seismic intensity areas.

KEYWORDS:

• Cyclic behavior
• UHPCFST columns
• hysteretic model
• machine learning
• hysteretic curve

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The present work was supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Nos. 51738011] and Research Project of Hubei Polytechnic University [Grant Nos. 23×jz03R].