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High-Performance Composite Construction: Materials and Components

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2024) | Viewed by 3634

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Yicong Xue

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School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
Interests: composite construction; shear behavior of composite members; FE modeling; AI-based behavior prediction
Dr. Yunlong Yu

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School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an 710055, China
Interests: steel-concrete composite structures; hybrid test; pre-stressing technique
Dr. Ruyue Liu

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School of Civil Engineering, Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou 350118, China
Interests: steel-concrete composite structures; prefabricated structures; seismic design method

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Composite construction possesses advantages such as high load-carrying capacity, ease of construction, and excellent ductility; thus, it has become increasingly prevalent in structural engineering. In recent years, composite construction has become more popular due to the development of emerging high-performance materials and novel structural components. Therefore, understanding composite construction at the levels of material, member, connection, and structure is essential, and new design theories and mechanisms are also required.

This Special Issue is dedicated to high-performance composite construction. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • The behavior of high-performance concrete and steel;
  • The behavior of novel composite components (beams, columns, and shear walls);
  • FE/theoretical modeling of composite materials and components;
  • Ultimate strength prediction of composite components;
  • Data-driven design of composite components.

Dr. Yicong Xue
Dr. Yunlong Yu
Dr. Ruyue Liu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • composite construction
  • steel–concrete composite
  • high-performance construction material
  • composite components
  • analysis and modeling
  • design method

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The Hysteresis Behavior of Steel Beam–Column Joint with the Load Bearing-Energy Dissipation Connection for Converter Station Building
by Xian Gao, Shaoyuan Lin, Ruyue Liu and Xilong Chen
Buildings 2024, 14(8), 2424; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14082424 - 6 Aug 2024
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Prefabricated converter station building has been gradually applied in the field of power engineering construction due to the advantages of standardized design, high construction efficiency, and quality control. The beam–column joint is the essential constitutive part to ensure structural integrity and reliable force [...] Read more.
Prefabricated converter station building has been gradually applied in the field of power engineering construction due to the advantages of standardized design, high construction efficiency, and quality control. The beam–column joint is the essential constitutive part to ensure structural integrity and reliable force transmission for the prefabricated structure. In this paper, a novel load bearing-energy dissipation connection is proposed and applied to the beam–column joint to improve seismic performance and seismic resilience. Pseudo-static tests were conducted on the beam–column joint with the load bearing-energy dissipation connection, and the test results demonstrated that the tested beam–column joints developed with similar failure modes, and the damage was concentrated in the load bearing-energy dissipation connection while the beam and column remained elastic. The beam–column joint with the load bearing-energy dissipation connection had stable hysteresis behavior, with favorable bearing capacity and energy dissipation behavior. A shorter slip length and a larger bolt distance could lead to better stress development and enhance the bearing capacity, while the slip length barely affected the ductile behavior. Moreover, a finite element model was established and validated to extend the parametric study to provide a preliminary understanding of the mechanical mechanism of the proposed beam–column joint with the load bearing-energy dissipation connection. It was confirmed that the load–-deformation behavior was greatly affected by the slip length, but the slip length barely affected the initial stiffness. The width of the sliding steel fuse influenced the bearing capacity and the degradation behavior. A wider width could lead to a higher bearing capacity and improve the degradation behavior. Based on the analysis of the stress development and stress distribution corresponding to different feature points, it was concluded that the use of bearing-energy dissipation improved the stress development in the framing components and achieved damage concentration. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Performance Composite Construction: Materials and Components)
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Cyclic Behavior of Partially Prefabricated Steel Shape-Reinforced Concrete Composite Shear Walls: Experiments and Finite Element Analysis
by Yunlong Yu, Qiang Xie, Yaping Liu and Yicong Xue
Buildings 2024, 14(7), 2208; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14072208 - 17 Jul 2024
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Due to the higher lateral stiffness, load-carrying, and energy dissipation capacities compared with traditional reinforced concrete (R.C.) shear walls, steel shape-reinforced concrete (SRC) shear walls, in which steel profiles are encased in the boundary elements, have been widely applied in high-rise buildings. In [...] Read more.
Due to the higher lateral stiffness, load-carrying, and energy dissipation capacities compared with traditional reinforced concrete (R.C.) shear walls, steel shape-reinforced concrete (SRC) shear walls, in which steel profiles are encased in the boundary elements, have been widely applied in high-rise buildings. In order to simplify the on-site construction procedure, this paper proposes a novel partially prefabricated steel shape-reinforced concrete (PPSRC) shear wall using throat connectors. Based on the pseudo-static tests of two large-scale specimens, the effect of construction methods (prefabricated or cast in place) on the cyclic behavior of PPSRC shear walls was investigated by the hysteretic loops, skeleton curves, stiffness degradation, energy dissipation, and deformation decomposition. The test results indicated that PPSRC shear walls could exhibit a comparative cyclic response with the cast-in-place SRC shear walls, and the proposed throat connectors could effectively transfer the stress of the longitudinal reinforcements. Finally, a macro-modeling of PPSRC shear walls based on the multi-layer shell elements in OpenSees 3.3.0 was established and validated by the test results, and the parametric analysis of the axial compression, steel ratio, and concrete strength of prefabricated and cast-in-place parts was then conducted. Full article
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Multidimensional Seismic Response Analysis of Large-Scale Steel-Reinforced Concrete Frame-Bent Structures in CAP1400 Nuclear Power Plant
by Zhenhua Xu, Jinquan Zhao, Guoliang Bai and Yonggang Ding
Buildings 2024, 14(5), 1318; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14051318 - 7 May 2024
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Irregularity in the plane layout of a building structure and the vertical discontinuity of lateral resistance components could lead to torsion and result in the brittle failure of a structure. According to the characteristics of the conventional island main building of nuclear power [...] Read more.
Irregularity in the plane layout of a building structure and the vertical discontinuity of lateral resistance components could lead to torsion and result in the brittle failure of a structure. According to the characteristics of the conventional island main building of nuclear power plants, this paper focuses on the conventional island main building of the CAP1400 nuclear power plant (NPP) in Shidaowan as the research object. A prototype structure model of the main building was developed using ABAQUS software. The seismic response of the structure under multidimensional ground motion was studied by inputting the X-direction and Y-direction translational and torsional components of ground motion in ABAQUS. The results demonstrate that the overall transverse displacement of the structure under bidirectional ground motion was significantly higher than that under unidirectional earthquakes, which was about 20%. Under a multidimensional frequent earthquake, the transverse displacement of the structure increased by about 13% on average compared with that under a bidirectional earthquake; the longitudinal increase was the largest, at about 28%. Finally, the lateral displacement of each layer of the steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) frame-bent main building structure with few walls proposed in this article decreased by an average of about 17% compared to the traditional SRC frame-bent main building structure. The longitudinal displacement was reduced by about 14% compared to the traditional SRC frame-bent main building structure. Full article
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Experimental Study on Hysteretic Performance of Steel Moment Connection with Buckling-Restrained Dog-Bone Beam Sections
by Shiqiang Feng, Yong Yang, Ning Hao, Xin Chen and Jiancheng Zhou
Buildings 2024, 14(3), 760; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14030760 - 12 Mar 2024
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Steel beam–column connections with dog-bone beam sections have gained significant attention and have been extensively applied. This is attributed to their ability to effectively centralize and integrate plastic hinges, thereby diverting potential damage away from the beam ends during earthquake events. In order [...] Read more.
Steel beam–column connections with dog-bone beam sections have gained significant attention and have been extensively applied. This is attributed to their ability to effectively centralize and integrate plastic hinges, thereby diverting potential damage away from the beam ends during earthquake events. In order to achieve the enhancement of the ductility and energy dissipation of connections by inhibiting local buckling during an earthquake event, a novel steel moment connection with buckling-restrained dog-bone beam sections was proposed in this paper. There were three types of proposed connections according to the different arrangements of restrained steel plates, including arranging the restrained plates only on the flanges, only on the web, and on both the flanges and webs of the dog-bone beam sections. In this study, three specimens with buckling-restrained dog-bone beam sections and one control specimen with a dog-bone beam section were tested under cyclic loading. The failure modes, hysteretic curves, skeleton curves, stiffness degradation ductilities, displacement ductility ratios, and energy dissipation capacities of the specimens were analyzed based on the experimental results to evaluate the seismic behavior of the proposed connections. The results indicated that the local buckling of the proposed connections was significantly reduced compared with the traditional connection with a dog-bone beam section under the condition of keeping the plastic hinges away from the beam–column connection core. The arrangement of the restrained plates in the dog-bone beam section had little effect on the bearing capacity and the initial stiffness, with errors all being within 6%. It is worth mentioning that the connection with restrained plates only on the flanges in the dog-bone beam sections showed a more obvious improvement in the deformation capacity and energy dissipation capacity of the connection, which increased by 21% and 16%, respectively. Additionally, high-quality welding between the beam and column, smooth cutting shapes on the weakened flanges, and the high-quality drilling of long slots at the fixed point in the restrained plates and the dog-bone beam sections should be guaranteed to improve the hysteretic stabilities of the proposed connections. Full article
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