Abstract
Axially loaded steel tubes are widely used as primary structural members in civil engineering structures. In this paper, a stress measurement method for axially loaded steel tubes is developed based on the linear relationship between the group velocity of guided waves in the steel tube and the stress of the steel tube. The propagation modes of guided waves in a typical steel tube are analyzed using semi-analytical finite element method. A torsional mode T(0,1) is adopted to conduct the measurement. Experiments are carried out to calibrate the linear relationship between the group velocity of guided waves in a steel tube and the stress of the steel tube. The calibrated linear relationship is verified by another round of experiments on the same steel tube specimen. There is an average error of 8.2% between the stresses predicted by the calibrated linear equation and those obtained from strain gauges. Via this study, the guided wave-based stress measurement method has been successfully extended to axially loaded steel tubes.
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