Behavior of Steel Beam to Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Column Connections after Exposure to Fire
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 133, Issue 6
Abstract
A nonlinear finite-element analysis (FEA) model was developed in this paper based on the elastoplastic finite-element theory to analyze the load versus deformation relation of steel beam to concrete-filled steel tubular column connections. Six tests on steel beam to concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) column connections using external ring after exposure to the ISO-834 standard fire were used to verify the theoretical model. The test parameters included the column cross-sectional type, the fire duration time, the level of axial load in the column, and the beam-column strength ratio. Each test specimen consisted of a CFST column and two steel beam segments in cruciform arrangement to represent an interior joint in a building. Three of the six composite connection specimens had circular cross sections and three had square cross sections. Five of the test specimens were simultaneously exposed to the standard ISO-834 fire condition. After they had cooled down to room temperature, each was tested under a constant axial load and a cyclically increasing flexural load. This paper presents an analysis of the experimental results to validate the FEA model and to evaluate the influences of different testing parameters on various characteristics of the beam-column connection performance. Comparisons between the predicted results and the experimental results indicate that the FEA model can predict the relations of steel beam to CFST column connections and the column lateral load resistance after fire with reasonable accuracy. Finally, the FEA model was used to make a parametric study of the influence of the various factors on the postfire behaviors of steel beam to CFST column connections.
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Acknowledgments
The research reported in the paper was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50425823), the Start-Up Fund for Outstanding Incoming Researchers Project of Fujian Province, and the Start-Up Fund for Outstanding Incoming Researchers Project of Tsinghua University. These financial supports are highly appreciated.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 133 • Issue 6 • June 2007
Pages: 800 - 814
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Received: Nov 18, 2005
Accepted: Apr 19, 2006
Published online: Jun 1, 2007
Published in print: Jun 2007
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Note. Associate Editor: Venkatesh Kumar R. Kodur
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