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This paper presents an investigation on the efficiency of steel tubes in reinforcing self-compacting concrete (SCC) columns. A theoretical model is developed to study the axial behavior of SCC columns reinforced with steel tubes, considering the effects of confinement on the filled concrete by steel tubes and concrete core confined by spirals. The computational results are validated against the existing test results of SCC columns. The effects of various column parameters on the performance of S...

Circular concrete-filled double-skin steel tubular (CFDST) columns with external stainless-steel are high-performance composite columns that have potential applications in civil construction including the construction of offshore structures, bridge piers, and transmission towers. Reflecting the limited research performed on investigating their mechanical performance, this study develops a computationally efficient fiber model to simulate the responses of short and slender beam-columns accounting...

This article investigates the axial compressive performance of concrete-filled double steel tubular (CFDST) short columns composed of circular section loaded concentrically. An experimental program comprised of compression tests on short columns is carried out to examine their structural performance. Axial compression tests on conventional concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns and double-skin concrete-filled steel tubular (DCFST) columns are also performed for comparison purposes. The tes...

Both the external and internal thin-walled steel sections of a rectangular double-skin concrete-filled steel tubular (RDCFST) short column loaded axially may be susceptible to progressive local buckling, which is rarely included in mathematical modeling programs employing the fiber discretization scheme for such composite members. This paper provides a description of a new computational simulation technology, which is developed for the nonlinear fiber analysis of short RDCFST columns axially loa...