Showing papers in "Journal of Constructional Steel Research in 2010"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed cyclic axial and bending tests on structural carbon steel, cold-formed carbon steel and stainless steel, with a total of 62 experiments, with strain amplitudes up to ±15%.

TL;DR: In this article, a finite element analysis of the compressive behaviour of CFDST stub columns with SHS (square hollow section) or CHS (circular hollow sections) outer tube and CHS inner tube is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview and reappraisal of previous pertinent research, together with an evaluation of existing elevated temperature stainless steel stress-strain test data and previously proposed material models.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of tests investigating methods to develop composite action in existing non-composite floor systems is described. And preliminary design equations are proposed for the static and fatigue strength of post-installed shear connectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the axial compressive behavior of short concrete-filled elliptical steel columns using the ABAQUS/Standard solver was investigated, and a new confined concrete stress-stain model was proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a nonlinear finite element three-dimensional model is presented and validated in order to study the behaviour of axially loaded concrete filled tubular (CFT) columns with circular cross-section exposed to fire.

TL;DR: In this article, a perfobond-rib shear connector between steel and concrete mixed girder bridge components is described and push-out tests are conducted and the results were compared with established shear-capacity equations for perfobund shear connectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new low nickel grade of stainless steel (UNS 32101/EN 1.4162), commonly referred to as "lean duplex" has been developed, that offers over two times the strength of the familiar austenitic grades and at approximately half the initial cost.

TL;DR: In this article, cyclic loading tests and numerical analyses of BRBs were carried out using various tube restrainer configurations to investigate the influence of local buckling of the restrainer on BRB strength and ductility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the seismic behavior of composite joint consisting of circular concrete filled steel tubular (CFST) column and steel beam with reinforced concrete (RC) slab.

TL;DR: In this article, a performance-based optimal seismic design of frame structures is presented using the ant colony optimization (ACO) method, which leads to a significant improvement in consistency and computational efficiency compared to other evolutionary methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed 391 monotonic and cyclic tests from the literature on experiments of headed stud anchors and proposed formulas for the limit states of steel failure and concrete failure of anchored anchors subjected to shear force.

TL;DR: In this article, a new formulaic description of the buckling resistance is proposed, which is more accurate than the current expressions and is also more consistent with other member design rules, such as beam and column buckling.

TL;DR: In this article, the elastic cross-section local buckling stresses of hot-rolled steel structural shapes are analyzed and compared to the assumptions inherent in the local slenderness limits of the US AISC structural steel specification.

TL;DR: In this article, an optimum topology design algorithm based on the hybrid Big Bang-Big Crunch optimization (HBB-BC) method is developed for the Schwedler and ribbed domes.

TL;DR: In this article, a finite element analysis (FEA) model was developed to predict the load versus deformation relationships of concrete filled steel tube (CFST) stub columns subjected to a combination of temperature and axial compression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reliability assessment is given according to EN 1990, Annex D. The authors present experimental research of 38 tension splices with bolts in double shear, and the objective of the research was to determine ductility and resistance of such connections.

TL;DR: In this article, the T-stub connection is proposed as an alternative connection to the welded connection currently used as a moment connection for unfilled hollow section columns in the Australian construction industry.

TL;DR: In this article, different strength equations to compute the nominal tensile strength of a headed stud are reviewed and compared to experimental results, and several criteria are proposed to ensure a ductile failure in the steel shank instead of a brittle failure within the concrete.

TL;DR: In this paper, an investigation into the behavior of stainless steel connections failing by net section rupture has been conducted and numerical models for austenitic and ferritic stainless steel have been developed and validated against existing test results.

TL;DR: In this article, the behavior of steel pipes, filled and unfilled with concrete, is studied under cyclic shear to examine the possibility of their use as a seismic damper.

TL;DR: In this article, three types of moment resisting frames are designed in practice namely, intermediate and ordinary moment frames, each of which has a certain level of ductility, and an incremental dynamic analysis is then utilized to assess the structural dynamic behavior of the frames and to generate required data for performance based evaluations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the response spectra of seven ground motions on stiff soil were used to produce intensifying acceleration functions that at each time window produce a response spectrum that is compatible with the template spectrum and proportionally scale up with time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the fire performance of CFDST stub columns with self-consolidating concrete (SCC) and fiber reinforced SCC and found that the added steel fibre increases the fire resistance of stub columns especially for load levels less than 0.6.

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental and analytical study on the behavior of axially compressed tubed RC stub columns was performed to investigate the failure mode and axial load strength of tubed columns subjected to axial compression, and the effect of diameter/width to thickness ratio of the tubes and compressive strength of concrete were also studied.

TL;DR: In this article, a finite element modeling for concrete-filled lean duplex slender stainless steel tubular stub columns of grade EN 1.4162 is presented, where the columns were subjected to uniform axial compression over the concrete and stainless steel tube to force the entire section to undergo the same deformations by blocking action.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of tab stiffeners on the bond and compressive strengths were investigated experimentally using 18 and 10 specimens respectively, and it was observed that the tab stiffener does enhance both the bond strength and the axial load capacity of the concrete filled thin walled steel tubular stub column tested.

TL;DR: In this paper, a charged system search (CSS) algorithm is used to obtain the optimum design of a grillage system, which is inspired by the Coulomb and Gauss laws of electrostatics in physics and the governing laws of motion from Newtonian mechanics.

TL;DR: In this paper, numerical nonlinear simulations based on the finite element method (FEM) using the software package ABAQUS/Standard, of high strength C-section cold-formed steel purlins in shear and combined bending and shear are compared with and calibrated against tests performed at the University of Sydney on a variety of section sizes and thicknesses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore solutions and provide design recommendations for two practical issues that develop when integrating computational member analysis with the conventional finite strip method (FSM) into cold-formed steel member design utilizing the direct strength method (DSM).