Concrete Filled Double Skinned Tubular Columns Subjected to Different Loading Conditions

Abstract

The meteoric growth in light weight structures have opened on doors to many revolutionary concepts and innovations. Studies have manifested that the lowered weight of the structures somehow help to fight the material cost with a better seismic performance. The hollow core structures aimed reducing the structural weight with an improved structural performance as well. The Concrete filled double steel tubes (CFDST) can be taken as amalgamation of Hollow core columns and CFST i.e. single skinned columns. The co-relation of CFST and Hollow core columns gave birth to Concrete filled double skinned tubular columns (CFDST) which can possess the advantages of both the concepts. A sedulous review of concrete filled double skinned columns is being conveyed through this article. The behavior of confined concrete as well as the confining inner and outer steel in the CFDST model and its overall structural behavior is being succinctly reviewed in this article and a simultaneous comparison of CFDST columns to solid concrete/conventional columns is also being carried out where required.