Auxetic materials or structures possess a negative Poisson's ratio in contrast to conventional materials, and they shrink or expand transversely under uniaxial compression or tension, respectively. These unique deformation features leads to enhance the mechanical properties compared with the conventional materials. Auxetic tubular structures are of significant interest in the literature because of their superior mechanical qualities, applicability and extensive application. Various auxetic tubular structures with different geometries have been proposed and examined before including conventional peanut-shaped tubular structures. However, application of the peanut-shaped structures is limited due to their low stiffness. In this study, it is aimed to enhance the stiffness of the peanut-shaped tubular auxetic by either adding stiffener to the conventional structure or rotating the unit cell of the structure by a certain angle. Also, the effect of the above-mentioned modifications on the Poisson’s ratio of the structure is investigated. A total of twelve different peanut-shaped auxetics are modelled and the elastic behaviour of these structures under uniaxial compression is compared numerically using finite element simulation. As a result of this analysis, it is observed that both the Poisson’s ratio and stiffness values obtained from the models utilising stiffener were higher than the values obtained from their conventional counterparts. Besides, it is seen that the stiffness values increased while the Poisson’s ratios decreased with the rotation of the unit cell in all of the peanut-shaped tubular auxetics.
Concrete-filled steel columns (CFSCs) are of great interest in the literature as they are capable of carrying higher loads by combining the exceptional qualities of steel and concrete. With auxetic materials being introduced to civil engineering applications, the influence of these materials on CFSCs remains a matter of curiosity. The current study implements a nonlinear finite element analysis to evaluate the performance of circular CFSCs with six auxetic tubes under axial compression and the proposed numerical model was validated using published experimental data. The effect of the auxetic steel tube’s porosity and Poisson’s ratio on CFSCs was examined parametrically in terms of ultimate strength using the confined concrete model. Moreover, the stress distributions of the concrete and the auxetic steel tubes were also thoroughly examined. Based on the findings of the analysis, the ultimate load of CFSCs, utilising auxetic tubes with the same density and porosity but different Poisson’s ratio, increased proportionally with the increase of auxetic behaviour. When it comes to auxetic tubes with different densities and porosities, the influence of the Poisson’s ratio of the tubes diminished and the stiffness of tubes became more dominant over the mechanical characteristics of columns as the density of the auxetic steel tubes increased or decreased. The stiffness of the auxetic tubes reduced as porosity increased, as did the ultimate load of the columns. Additionally, the ultimate loads of the auxetic steel tube columns are found to be lower than those of bare steel tube columns filled with concrete due to perforations.
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