COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ›› 2014, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (11): 21-25.

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STUDY ON FAILURE MECHANISM OF PVC-FRP CONFINED CONCRETE COLUMN SUBJECTED TO AXIAL COMPRESSION

YU Feng 1,2*, NIU Di-tao1   

  1. 1. School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China;
    2. School of Civil Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Ma'anshan 243002, China
  • Received:2013-12-13 Online:2014-11-28 Published:2021-09-13

Abstract: According to the experimental study on 12 PVC-FRP confined concrete columns subjected to axial compression, the failure mode and failure mechanism of PVC-FRP confined concrete column are analyzed. The loading process of PVC-FRP confined concrete column may be divided into three sections: the elastic, the elastic-plastic and strengthening stage. Based on the material characteristics of PVC tube, core concrete and CFRP strips, the confining procedure of core concrete may be divided into three stages: preceding the crack of concrete, after the crack of concrete and the internal force redistribution. PVC tube includes the elastic and elastic-plastic stage; the stress and strain of CFRP strips are in increasing condition; the stress paths of PVC tube, core concrete and CFRP strips are presented on the basis of experimental study. The simplified calculating method of bearing capacity of PVC-FRP confined concrete column is also proposed by the condition of limit equilibrium.

Key words: PVC-FRP tube, concrete column, bearing capacity, failure mechanism, confinement

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