Abstract
To study the flexural behavior of composite girders with concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) truss chords under positive and negative bending moments, model tests, and theoretical analysis were carried out to investigate the evolution of their flexural behavior and the flexural bearing capacity. The results showed that the web members and joints of composite girders with CFST truss chords subjected to positive and negative bending moments had high strength and rigidity, which ensured that joint failures did not occur before the failure of the entire cross section. The longitudinal strains along the member axis changed linearly along the cross-sectional height, which confirmed the correctness of the plane-section assumption. The failure mode was due to the yield of the steel tube used in the chord and the rebars in the concrete slab under positive and negative bending moments, respectively. The contributions of the web members to the flexural bearing capacity under positive and negative bending moments were 12.5% and 8.6%, respectively. Calculation methods considering the contributions of the web members to the flexural bearing capacity under positive and negative bending moments were proposed. The deviation between the results of the proposed calculation methods and the test and the results of the finite-element parametric studies was less than 8.1%.
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Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFE0130300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52078137), and the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (No. 2019J06009). The tests were conducted at the Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory on Multi-Disaster Prevention and Mitigation in Civil Engineering at Fuzhou University. The support provided by the laboratory staff is gratefully acknowledged.
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Volume 28 • Issue 5 • May 2023
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Received: Jul 8, 2022
Accepted: Nov 26, 2022
Published online: Feb 28, 2023
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