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Experimental study on Tapered Concrete-Filled Double Skin Steel Tubular columns under torsion
Abstract Recent developments in the high-output wind turbine have heightened the need for CFDST support towers. Tapered Concrete-Filled Double Skin Steel Tubular columns with Large Hollow Ratios (TLHR-CFDSTs) are the typical members in the wind turbine towers, which are usually subjected to torsion during the life cycle. It is necessary to pay more attention to these members under torsion due to their tapered shapes and thin-walled cross sections. This paper thus presents an experimental study on the torsional behaviour of the TLHR-CFDST column. Specimens with different tapered angles, hollow ratios, tubes’ thicknesses and axial compression ratios were tested under pure torsion and compression–torsion. The typical failure modes, torque versus deformation relations, strain distributions and the influence of important parameters are revealed. Based on the experimental results, the mechanism of TLHR-CFDST columns under torsion is discussed. The applicability of existing torsional capacity calculation methods is evaluated and finally a simplified method for predicting the torsional capacity of TLHR-CFDST columns is proposed.
Highlights Tests on TLHR-CFDST columns under pure torsion and compression–torsion are reported. Behaviour and parametric effects of TLHR-CFDST columns under torsion are revealed. Torsional mechanism of TLHR-CFDST columns is discussed. Theoretical method for predicting the torsional capacity of TLHR-CFDST columns is proposed.
Experimental study on Tapered Concrete-Filled Double Skin Steel Tubular columns under torsion
Abstract Recent developments in the high-output wind turbine have heightened the need for CFDST support towers. Tapered Concrete-Filled Double Skin Steel Tubular columns with Large Hollow Ratios (TLHR-CFDSTs) are the typical members in the wind turbine towers, which are usually subjected to torsion during the life cycle. It is necessary to pay more attention to these members under torsion due to their tapered shapes and thin-walled cross sections. This paper thus presents an experimental study on the torsional behaviour of the TLHR-CFDST column. Specimens with different tapered angles, hollow ratios, tubes’ thicknesses and axial compression ratios were tested under pure torsion and compression–torsion. The typical failure modes, torque versus deformation relations, strain distributions and the influence of important parameters are revealed. Based on the experimental results, the mechanism of TLHR-CFDST columns under torsion is discussed. The applicability of existing torsional capacity calculation methods is evaluated and finally a simplified method for predicting the torsional capacity of TLHR-CFDST columns is proposed.
Highlights Tests on TLHR-CFDST columns under pure torsion and compression–torsion are reported. Behaviour and parametric effects of TLHR-CFDST columns under torsion are revealed. Torsional mechanism of TLHR-CFDST columns is discussed. Theoretical method for predicting the torsional capacity of TLHR-CFDST columns is proposed.
Experimental study on Tapered Concrete-Filled Double Skin Steel Tubular columns under torsion
Deng, Ran (author) / Zhou, Xu-Hong (author) / Wang, Yu-Hang (author) / Bai, Jiu-Lin (author) / Deng, Xiao-Wei (author)
Thin-Walled Structures ; 177
2022-05-11
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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