Experimental Study on Circular Hybrid SCCC Columns under Axial Compressive Load
The tests are order to investigate the axial compressive performance of the new circular hybrid Steel-Concrete- CFRP-Concrete column (simply called SCCC column).SCCC column is composed of steel tube, annular concrete, CFRP tube and core concrete. Axial ultimate bearing capacity test was performed on 3 SCCC columns, from which we gains the law of affecting SCCC columns, the load-strain curve and load-displacement curve of SCCC columns, and compare the test results of the test specimen with different annular concrete thicknesses, from which we finds that after the relationship curve of test specimen with small annular concrete thickness reaches yield load, the bearing capacity starts to decline, and then continues to rise till the ultimate load is reached and the test specimen is damaged. The result shows that the smaller the annular concrete thickness is, the greater the axial ultimate bearing capacity of SCCC column is, and also indicates that CFRP tube plays a role of binding and constraining to the core concrete in later period of loading the test specimens.