Abstract
The ultra-high concrete-filled steel tubular (CFT) power transmission tower is popularly applied in engineering practice, which may be under a typical cyclic axial tension-compression loading condition due to the dynamic wind load. Nonetheless, the CFT columns of the tower may be accompanied by significant gap defects due to the influence of structural feature, material property, and service environment. Hence, to figure out the performance of circular CFT columns with spherical-cap gaps (CFT-SG) subjected to cyclic axial tension-compression, this paper investigates a constitutive relationship for the gapped core concrete, which is verified by several existing experiments. A novel numerical modelling approach for simulating the irregular cross-section of the circular CFT-SG columns under cyclic axial load was following established based on the triangulation method and code programming. The influence of important parameters such as gap ratio, material strength, and diameter to thickness ratio on the hysteresis characteristics, load-bearing capacity, elastic stiffness, energy dissipation and ductility of circular CFT-SG columns under cyclic axial tension-compression force is studied. Moreover, the restoring force model of the circular CFT-SG columns under cyclic axial tension-compression is finally presented. Research results declare that the compressive bearing capacity, stiffness, ductility, and energy dissipation of circular CFT-SG columns under cyclic axial tension-compression are gradually weakened with the increment in the gap ratio. The numerical modelling approach and restoring force model proposed in this article can accurately evaluate the hysteresis performance of circular CFT-SG columns subjected to cyclic axial tension-compression.
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