Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 211-226 (2016)
STATIC STRENGTH OF SQUARE TUBULAR Y-JOINTS WITH
REINFORCED CHORD UNDER AXIAL COMPRESSION
Y. Chen 1 and Y.B. Shao 2,*
1Graduate student, China Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Building Safety and Energy
Efficiency, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
2Professor, School of Mechatronic Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China
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Received: 26 June 2012; Revised: 9 September 2012; Accepted: 9 October 2012
DOI:10.18057/IJASC.2016.12.3.1
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ABSTRACT
Chord reinforcement is an available alternative to improve the static strength of the welded square tubular joints. Four full-scaled square tubular Y-joints are studied experimentally to investigate the effect of local chord reinforcement on their static strength. From experimental results, it is found that the static strength of a square tubular Y-joint can be improved greatly by increasing the chord thickness locally near the brace/chord intersection. The failure mode of an un-reinforced Y-joint can be changed from local yielding around the brace/chord intersection to flexural yielding of the chord member when the local chord thickness is increased to a critical value. In addition, finite element (FE) models for analyzing the static behavior of square tubular Y-joints are also presented, and the accuracy and reliability of these models have been evaluated by comparing the FE results with experimental results. Finally, influence of some parameters (Lc/d, β, γ and Tc/t0) on the static strength of square tubular Y-joints with local chord reinforcement is studied, and a parametric equation for predicting the static strength of square tubular Y-joints with local chord reinforcement under axial compression is presented. The accuracy of the presented equation is verified through error analysis.
KEYWORDS
Square tubular T-joints, chord reinforcement, finite element, static strength, parametric equation
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