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Numerical Investigation for Strengthening a Concrete Filled Steel Tube Composite Columns Using CFRP

Version 1 : Received: 10 December 2023 / Approved: 11 December 2023 / Online: 11 December 2023 (13:11:10 CET)

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Sabih, S.M.; Hilo, S.J.; Hamood, M.J.; Salih, S.S.; Faris, M.M.; Yousif, M.A. Numerical Investigation into the Strengthening of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Composite Columns Using Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymers. Buildings 2024, 14, 441. Sabih, S.M.; Hilo, S.J.; Hamood, M.J.; Salih, S.S.; Faris, M.M.; Yousif, M.A. Numerical Investigation into the Strengthening of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Composite Columns Using Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymers. Buildings 2024, 14, 441.

Abstract

Hollow and concrete-filled steel tubes (CFSTs) are widely used as columns in many structural systems and local buckling can occur when they are subjected to axial compression loading. The critical regions for the local buckling of the columns are near the ends of the column where the moments are the highest. To strengthen the critical regions of the CFSTs the CFRP provides a simple and effective method which used previously as an enhancement for both of strength and ductility. So, this study suggests investigating the axial load behaviour of CFST strengthened with CFRP using FE method after a verification study and then a various parametric studies were carried out to cover the effect of the CFRP layers, number, confinement length and position. The FE results proved that, one CFRP sheet with thickness equal to 1.2 mm was strengthened the composite column by 8.5%, two CFRP sheets with total thickness equal to 2.4 mm was strengthened the composite column by 23.5%, three CFRP sheets with total thickness equal to 3.6 mm was strengthened the composite column by 35.1% and four CFRP sheets with total thickness equal to 4.8 mm was strengthened the composite column by 44.5%. Moreover, this study proved that by strengthened the composite columns with CFRP sheets with different lengths, the axial load resistance was improved by 8.5%, 4.6%, 0.1% and 0.0% for length percentages 100%, 75%, 50% and 25% respectively.

Keywords

Strengthening; Repair; FE analysis; Numerical study; CFRP; CFST.

Subject

Engineering, Civil Engineering

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