Abstract
This paper presents the Finite Element (FE) analysis of Square Hollow Steel (SHS) tubular sections externally wrapped with Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) strips under axial compressive load. CFRP sheets are used as strip form and the width of the strip is 50 mm. The spacing between the strips is considered as a constant of 20 mm and the numbers of layers are one, two and three in the horizontal direction. All the samples are subjected by axial compressive load till reached their ultimate failure load. From the test results, the failure style, axial load and displacement, Ultimate load and stress strain behaviour were compared with the control and each other. Finally a numerical analysis were designed for failure style, stress strain, ultimate load and axial displacement using ANSYS package and validated with the test results. FE modelling provided a suitable wrapping scheme for SHS tubular members.
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