The seismic performance of reinforced concrete(RC) columns is one of the controlling factors of the shock resistance for RC frame structures and bridges under seismic loads. Due to the complicated material behavior and complex external force during the earthquake, an accurate simulation of the mechanical performance under seismic loads demands more precisions for the hysteresis constitutive laws of materials. In this paper, based on the fiber cross-section model, adopting revised Kent-Park model for concrete and Legeron model for steel reinforcement, programming the UMAT material subroutine, FEM software ABAQUS is used to simulate a RC column mentioned in a research. It’s results are found agreed well with the test results.
This paper presents an experimental investigation on the short composition columns reinforced with the prefabricated super high strength concrete used stone-chop(abbreviated to SHSCUS) filled with steel tubes with 1RC as reference. The experimental parameters were the concrete type inner steel tubes, and L/D ratio, steel ratio and so on. The performance of the composition columns was investigated using different diameter-to-thickness ratio of steel tubes ranging from 15 to 26.6, and different cubic strength of 126.7, 120.3, 122.4, 134.4, 125.4, 111.4, 108.6MPa of infill concrete. The experimental results showed that concrete cover falling off was prior to specimens failure, and that the design rule, as specified in current code suitable for HSC overestimate the ultimate bearing capacity, were not suitable for the case with SHSCUS. Then the hypothesis was put forward based on experimental phenomena observed, and the formula of its ultimate load capacity was suggested based on superposition method, by which the predicted values have a good coincidence with those from the experiments.
The Anqing Changjiang River Railway Bridge is an important fixed link across the Changjiang River in Anqing both the Nanjing-Anqing Intercity Railway and Fuyang-Jingdezhen Railway. Its main bridge is a six-span continuous steel truss girder cable-stayed bridge with main span of 580 m. The purpose of this paper is to describe some of its main features and FE model for geometrical nonlinearity using the finite element program ANSYS as well as control method of stress-free status for erection of cable-stayed bridge. Based on geometrical nonlinear analysis theories, secondary development of ANSYS using APDL was accomplished.
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