Showing papers in "Journal of Constructional Steel Research in 2003"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an expression for the stress-strain curves for stainless steel alloys which is valid over the full strain range, which is useful for the design and numerical modelling of stainless steel members and elements which reach stresses beyond the 0.2% proof stress in their ultimate limit state.

TL;DR: The cold-formed steel structures are steel structural products that are made by bending flat sheets of steel at ambient temperature into shapes which will support more than the flat sheets themselves.

TL;DR: In this article, the monitoring of fatigue crack propagation in steel and welded steel compact tension and T-section girder test specimens, using an advanced acoustic emission system with accurate source location, is described.

TL;DR: In this article, the ultimate capacity of high-strength rectangular concrete-filled steel hollow section (CFSHS) stub columns is experimentally investigated and the results show that EC4 closely predicts with a difference of 6% while AISC and ACI underestimated the critical loads by 16 and 14, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of fire tests on composite columns with square and rectangular sections were reported, which provided data on the necessary fire protection measures for the concrete-filled steel SHS columns used in a high-rise building in Hangzhou City, in southern China.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive finite element investigation on steel beams with web openings of various shapes and sizes is reported, and the primary structural characteristics of those steel beams are examined in detail.

TL;DR: In this article, a test program on cold-formed stainless steel square hollow section (SHS) subjected to pure axial compression was described, where the specimens were cold-rolled from stainless steel sheets.

TL;DR: In this paper, a generalised moment-shear interaction curve was developed to assess the load capacity of steel beams with web openings of various shapes and sizes, and an indicative parameter, the Vierendeel parameter, was established to evaluate the performance of the Voronoi mechanism in perforated sections.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of the acoustic emission technique to monitor fatigue crack propagation in steel compact tension specimens and T-section girders is described, based on correlations between crack propagation rates, acoustic emission count rates and stress intensity factor range procedures are suggested for predicting remaining fatigue life.

TL;DR: In this article, the initial geometrical imperfection, residual stresses and yield slenderness limit of very high strength (VHS) circular steel tubes with the yield stress of 1350 MPa were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a model is developed for beam lateral buckling stability analysis based on Eurocode 3, which is used for checking the stability of laterally unrestrained beams with open sections.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the influence of concrete compaction on the strength of concrete-filled steel RHS columns and found that better compaction of concrete resulted in higher member capacities.

TL;DR: In this article, a genetic algorithm based optimum design method is presented for nonlinear multistorey steel frames with semi-rigid connections, which accounts for the effect of the flexibility of the connections and the geometric non-linearity of the members.

TL;DR: A nonlinear force-deformation model to simulate shear transfer behavior in the panel zone of CFT (Concrete-Filled Steel Tube) beam-column connections is proposed in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of numerical models for analysing stainless steel plates in compression, where the effect of anisotropy is investigated using elastic-perfectly-plastic material models.

TL;DR: An attempt to predict the load-deformation behavior of concrete-filled hollow structural steel (HSS) columns with the steel tubes subjected to pre-load is proposed in this article, where the theoretical model and the influence of the preload ratio, slenderness ratio, steel ratio, as well as the strength of the materials are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental and numerical analysis of the shear strength of each friction weld subject to push out load is discussed, and finite element analysis using non-linear discrete element models has been used to examine the local behaviour of concrete filled panels.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of innovative cold-formed steel columns of intermediate length under axial compression were evaluated using finite element analyses (ABAQUS) and finite strip analysis program THINWALL.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental investigation on steel-concrete composite plate girders subject to the combined action of shear and bending was conducted to study their ultimate load behavior.

TL;DR: The Eurocode 3 Part 1.2 has been validated in this work by comparison with the results from a set of 120 experimental and numerical tests performed on IPE 100 beams, submitted to temperatures varying from room temperature to 600 °C as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a FEM-based rigid, perfectly-plastic, yield load determination method was proposed for stiffened branch plate-to-rectangular Hollow Structural Section (HSS) connections.

TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental study into the deterioration of mechanical properties for both low and high strength light gauge steels under elevated temperatures was conducted to derive accurate reduction factors for mechanical properties in fire safety design.

TL;DR: In this article, a building in the North Hollywood area, which suffered major damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, was selected for detailed study, and the state-of-health of the damaged structure was assessed to determine the need and extent of repair.

TL;DR: In this article, a linear regression of the test results of the one-span composite slabs with end anchorage was used to predict the shear-bond resistance of a continuous composite slab.

TL;DR: In this article, fracture mechanics-based fatigue analysis for bridge details are examined under constant amplitude loading and the 50 and 97.7% probability of survival lines are obtained using appropriately selected stress intensity factors, a bi-linear crack growth model and a failure assessment diagram.

TL;DR: In this paper, two types of isolated tank models are considered in which the bearings are placed at the base and top of the steel tower structure, and the continuous liquid mass of the tank is modelled as lumped masses known as sloshing mass, impulsive mass and rigid mass.

TL;DR: In this article, a design procedure for the determination of the ultimate resistance of longitudinally stiffened girder webs to concentrated loads is presented, which is harmonized with other design procedures currently used for describing buckling problems in steel structures.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach in the definition of joint strength for thick-walled circular hollow section (CHS) X-joint subjected to brace axial loading is presented, based on the plastic load approach for limit analysis of pressure vessel components proposed by Gerdeen.

TL;DR: Using the rate of flow method and the double power law function for basic creep of concrete, an algorithm is developed for the time-dependent behavior of concrete-filled steel tube (CFT), with or without the interface bond as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results from ten fatigue tests performed on six full-scale riveted stringers are presented and discussed, and the efficiency of using stop-holes to retard fatigue crack propagation in riveted girders is examined.