The Experimental Research on the Vertical and Horizontal Bearing Capacity of Hollow Latticed Steel Columns

Abstract

The paper researched on the strain, the deformation and the failure mode of hollow latticed steel columns through two experimental conditions. They were respectively about the vertical load and the horizontal load. The results showed that for the hollow latticed steel columns with upper columns, because of the stiffness of upper columns was obviously higher than the lower ones’, the upper columns were destroyed earliest under the vertical load. In addition, the columns had good horizontal bearing and deformation capacity, and the gravity second-order effects were not obvious for the columns.