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 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON CONCRETE FILLED STEEL
TUBULAR COLUMN USING GS SHEET STRENGHTENED WITH
SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE COLUMN.

SUPERVISED BY PRESENTED BY
Dr. Tarif Uddin Ahmed Al-Amin Bin Aziz
Professor Roll no. 100018
Department of Civil Engineering Moniruzzaman Rubel
Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology Roll no. 100093
 Presentation Outline
Introduction
Background
Application
Objectives
Scope of work
Laboratory Investigation
Experimental Investigation
Conclusion
 Introduction
Recently different types of composite material have been widely applied to
concrete column to provide better performance of column system. Concrete-filled
steel tube column system has turned out to be one of the most successful
composite concrete column. The concrete-filled steel tubular column offers
numerous structural benefits-

 High strength, fire and corrosion resistances

 Favorable ductility and large energy absorption capacities
 There is also no need for the use of shuttering during concrete
construction
 Construction cost and time are reduced.

These advantages have been widely exploited and have led to the extensive use of
concrete-filled tubular structures in civil engineering structures.
 Background
BaoChun Chen in 2009, this paper briefly introduces the present situation of concrete
filled steel tube arch bridges in China. More than 200 concrete filled steel tubular arch
bridges were investigated and analyzed.

Qing Quan Liang and Sam Fragomeni in 2009, Quin and Sam had presented accurate
constitutive models for normal and high strength concrete confined by either normal or
high strength circular steel tubes.

Shankar Jagadesh in May 2014, Concrete-filled steel tubes are gaining increasing
prominence in a variety of engineering structures. The study about the behavior and the
characteristics of concrete filled steel tubular columns is the prime need of the hour.

Most of the investigation have been conducted using cast iron steel column, carbon fiber
reinforced polymer or other types of steel columns of various shapes.
Experimental Investigation on GS sheet steel tube columns have been rarely used.

So we are investigating on CONCRETE FILLED STEEL TUBE USING

GALVANIZING STEEL SHEET COLUMNS.
 Application
Concrete filled steel tube structure are widely used.

Used in buildings to avoid having large size columns

In super high-rise structures like CANTON TOWER

Applied in many types of bridges such as arch bridges,

cable bridges, suspension bridges and truss bridges.

Used in the construction and the upgrade of poles and

transmission towers as well
Building frame construction

Electric pole

Canton Tower, china

CFST used in bridges

Steel tube columns
 Objectives
To evaluate the Compression effect of concrete columns
strengthen by using the GS sheet materials.

To observe the behaviors of the confined and unconfined

(self-compacted) concrete columns subjected to
monotonic axial loading.

Evaluating the stress-strain & deflection curve for

confined and unconfined specimens.

To obtain a concept about the variation of results from

stress-strain curve.
 Scope of Work
This study discusses an experimental process in which

i. Short steel tube columns are taken under consideration to compare the
strength variation with the normally casted self-compacted unconfined
columns.

ii. The slenderness ratio of the column specimen was taken under
consideration for the computation of strength

iii. Monotonic axial load was applied to the circular face of the columns.

iv. The benefits of the confinement effect were focused in the study by means
of both experimental and analytical point of view.
 Laboratory Investigation
Laboratory Investigation is divided into three different stages:
i. Determination of physical properties of various material including specific gravity, BSG,
ACV, Compressive strength of cement, Fineness modulus etc.

ii. Preparation of steel tubular concrete columns and unconfined concrete columns were
prepared in two mix proportions.

Series no. Proportion Confined Unconfined Water-Cement

specimen specimen Ratio

1 1:2:4 C 1 , C2 , C3 , U1, U2, U3 .51

C4 , C5 , C6

2 1 : 1.5 : 3 C 7 , C8 , C9 , U4, U5, U6 .51

C10, C11, C12

Concrete mix proportions

 Illustration of preparing molds

Cutting of GS sheet. Rounding the steel sheet into circular shape

GS sheet tubular columns Welding the GS

Tubular column after welding. sheet column
 Details of test specimen for Confined Columns & Unconfined columns

Series Specime Outer Core Thickne Height Series no. Specimen no. Outer dia Φ Height (cm)
ss of
no. n no. dia Φ dia Φ (cm)
of steel columns
(cm) (cm) columns (cm) U1 19.05
(cm) 1 U2 13.97
60.96
C1 19.25 19.05 0.1 60.96 U3 8.89
C2 U4 19.05
1
C3 14.17 13.91 0.1 60.96 2 U5 13.97
60.96
C4 U6 8.89
C5 9.09 8.89 0.1 60.96
C6
C7 19.25 19.05 0.1 60.96
C8
C9 14.17 13.91 0.1 60.96
2 C10
C11 9.09 8.89 0.1 60.96
C12
 Casting of unconfined
columns after 24 hours
Casting of steel tubular
columns after 24 hours.

III. The specimens were tested in the appropriate set-up.

Test setup
Experimental Investigation
Serial Casting Specimen Cracking Ultimate Ultimate Vertical
No. criteria load(kN) load(kN) Deformation(mm)

Confined C1 592 608 3.048

(1:2:4) C2 427 448 3.239
C3 340 358 2.667
01
C4 325 349 3.747
C5 195 216 2.858
C6 178 197 .9525
Unconfined U1 295 322 3.302
(1:2:4) U2 170 186 4.166
U3 81 92 3.215
Confined C7 422 443 2.858
(1:1.5:3) C8 415 430 1.079
C9 285 302 3.429
C10 347 368 3.683
C11 219 235 2.261
C12 138 152 1.753
Unconfined U4 288 308 3.901
02 U5 124 141 2.096
(1:1.5:3)
U6 43 66 2.136
 25

20
STRESS (MPa)

25
15
C1
20
10 C7

STRESS (MPa)
U1
15
5
C3
10 C9
0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 U2
STRAIN % 5

0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
35 STRAIN %

30

25
Specifications
STRESS (MPa)

20
C1-C6 confined (1:2:4)
C6 C7-C12 confined (1:1.5:3)
15 C12
U1-U3 unconfined (1:2:4)
10 U3
U4-U6 unconfined (1:1.5:3)
5

0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
STRAIN %
 25

20
Specifications
C1-C6 confined (1:2:4)
STRESS (MPa)

15 C7-C12 confined (1:1.5:3)

C2
10 C8
U1-U3 unconfined (1:2:4)
U4 U4-U6 unconfined (1:1.5:3
5

0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7
STRAIN % 25

20

STRESS (MPa)
15
C10
10 C4
40
U5
35 5
30
STRESS (MPa)

0
25
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7
20 C11 STRAIN %
15 C5
U6
10
5
0
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
STRAIN %
FAILURE OF COLUMN SPECIMEN

Fails at top portion

Fails at
top

Fails at mid portion

Failure
Confined column Unconfined zone
columns (bottom)
 Conclusion
i. The confined column has less axial deformation in comparison to the
unconfined column when subjected to same amount of load.
ii. The failure of the confined columns initiates from the development of
deformation in steel sheet at top and bottom portion of the column, when the
ultimate load is applied the deformation initiates in the middle portion.
iii. In case of shear failure, the concrete encased fail first due to shear. In the
second modes of failure there is a plastic deformation in the GS sheet.
Recommendation
i. From the experimental investigation, it is observed that most of the columns
failed in shear, this type of failure occurred due to presence of weak concrete at
the failure zone for further research the columns should be casted carefully so
that each and every portion of the column may have uniform density of
concrete.
ii. Major work is done on concrete filled steel tubular column is
experimental. Still, there is a need for numerical study is needed to check
the parameters which affect the ultimate strength.

iii. As the BNBC code has not thrown light, for calculating the strength of
concrete filled steel tubular column, further research is needed.