Papers by Author: Wei Ning Sui

Abstract: Abstract: In order to study static strength of doubler plate reinforced circular hollow section (CHS) K-joints, experimental and numerical studies conducted by the authors. The effects of parameters Δ (the ratio between the length of doubler plate and the diameter of the brace) and α (the width of the doubler plate) on CHS K-joints subjected to bending load have been investigated and reported by the authors. It is found that the ultimate strength of a CHS K-joints reinforced with appropriately proportioned doubler plates can be up to 2 ratio to its un-reinforced counterpart. Reasonable geometric parameters of the doubler plate can make the chord, brace and doubler plate work together to bear the external bending load. The width and length parameter of the doubler plate, however, have no effect on the stiffness of the reinforced K-joints.

Abstract: In the present of paper, four experimental steel tubular columns with partial filled-concrete under reversed cyclic lateral load and constant axial load were numerically analyzed by finite element package ABAQUS. Under certain conditions of the radius-to-thickness ratio Rt and the slenderness ratio λ parameters, effect of filled-concrete height on ultimate strength and ductility of this type bridge pier was investigated. These numerical results of tubular columns with partial filled-concrete were compared with the previous experimental results. It was found that these numerical results agree with the experimental ones very well. And these load-displacement hysteretic curves, which were obtained from numerical model, indicated that filled-concrete height had greatly affected the ultimate strength and ductility of steel tubular bridge pier with partial filled-concrete.

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to study elasto-plastic behavior of the doubler plate reinforced tubular T-joints (DP-T-joints) subjected to axial tension or compression loading at the top of brace. Finite-element method is adopted in the numerical parametric studies to evaluate the ultimate strength of DP-T-joints. To verify numerical analysis, a typical full-scale doubler plate reinforced tubular T joints experimental study has been modeled using ABAQUS package. The load-displacement curves of the numerical results agree with the experiment curve very well. Then, affect of parameter (doubler plate width parameter α, doubler plate length parameter Δ, doubler plate to chord wall thickness ratio λ) on the elasto-plastic behavior has been investigated.