Uni-axial behaviour of externally confined UHSCFST columns

MH Lai, MT Chen, FM Ren, JCM Ho - Thin-Walled Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Thanks to the larger and more continuous confining stress provided by hollow steel tube,
ultra-high-strength concrete-filled-steel-tube (UHSCFST) columns are advocated rather than …

Seismic behaviour of innovative composite walls with high-strength manufactured sand concrete

M Guan, W Liu, M Lai, H Du, J Cui, Y Gan - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Reinforced concrete (RC) walls have been widely used in tall building construction to resist
lateral loads. However, RC walls behave low ductility and limited deformation capacity …

Behaviour of uni‐axially loaded concrete‐filled‐steel‐tube columns confined by external rings

MH Lai, JCM Ho - The Structural Design of Tall and Special …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
SUMMARY Concrete‐filled‐steel‐tube (CFST) columns have been widely adopted for
column construction of tall buildings due to its superior strength and ductility performance …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental study on the flexural behavior of over reinforced concrete beams bolted with compression steel plate: Part I

S Alasadi, P Shafigh, Z Ibrahim - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application A bolt-compression steel plate (BCSP)-system is usually used for
effective method to improve flexural behavior of over-reinforced concrete beams. Using steel …

Optimal design of external rings for confined CFST columns

MH Lai, JCM Ho - Magazine of Concrete Research, 2015 - icevirtuallibrary.com
Concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) columns are becoming increasingly popular in the
construction of tall buildings due to their superior behaviour contributed by composite action …

[PDF][PDF] Uni-axial behaviour of normal-strength CFDST columns with external steel rings

CX Dong, JCM Ho - Steel and Composite Structures, 2012 - researchgate.net
Concrete-filled-steel-tubular (CFST) columns have been well proven to improve effectively
the strength, stiffness and ductility of concrete members. However, the central part of …

Ductility and performance assessment of high strength self compacting concrete (HSSCC) deep beams: An experimental investigation

M Mohammadhassani, MZ Jumaat, M Jameel… - … engineering and design, 2012 - Elsevier
The behavior of deep beams is significantly different from that of normal beams. Because of
their proportions, deep beams are likely to have strength controlled by shear. This paper …

Curvature ductility prediction of high strength concrete beams

H Bouzid, A Kassoul - Structural engineering and mechanics: An …, 2018 - dbpia.co.kr
From the structural safety point of view, ductility is an important parameter, a relatively high
level of curvature ductility would provide to the structure an increased chance of survival …

Normalised rotation capacity for deformability evaluation of high-performance concrete beams

KJH Zhou, JCM Ho, RKL Su - Earthquake and Structures, 2010 - hub.hku.hk
High-strength concrete (HSC) is becoming more popular in the construction of beams and
columns of tall buildings because of its higher stiffness and strength-to-weight ratio …

Limited deformability design of high-strength concrete beams in low to moderate seismicity regions

JCM Ho, KJH Zhou - Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In the design of reinforced concrete (RC) beams located in low-moderate seismicity regions,
adequate flexural deformability apart from flexural strength to cater for the imposed seismic …