Structural Engineering and Mechanics

Volume 32, Number 4, 2009, pages 531-547

DOI: 10.12989/sem.2009.32.4.531

Central angle effect on connection behavior of steel box beam-to-circular column

Won-Sup Hwang, Young-Pil Kim and Tae-Yang Yoon

Abstract

This paper presents the experimental results on the strength behavior and failure modes of box beam-to-circular column connections in steel piers. Previous research introduced parameters such as joint central angles, extension of horizontal stiffeners, and use of equivalent web depth, which ignored strength behavior and failure modes of box beam-to-circular column connections. The use of equivalent web depth d2 is not reasonable when central angle

Key Words

box beam-to-circular column connection; central angle; equivalent web depth; failure modes; concrete-filled; yield strength.

Address

Won-Sup Hwang: Dept. of Civil Engineering, Inha University, 253 Yonghyun-Dong Nam-Gu, Incheon 402-751, Korea Young-Pil Kim: Structural Department, Yooshin Engineering Corporation, 832-40 Yoksam-Dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-936, Korea Tae-Yang Yoon: Steel Structure Research Lab., RIST, 79-5 Youngcheon, Dongtan, Hwasung, Kyunggido 445-813, Korea