Behaviour of pultruded beam-to-column joints using steel web cleats

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• 作者：Jawed Qureshi ; J. Toby Mottram
• 关键词：Bolted connections ; Steel web cleats ; Pultruded joints ; Damage onset ; Moment&ndash ; rotation response
• 刊名：Thin-Walled Structures
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：December, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：73
• 期：Complete
• 页码：48-56
• 全文大小：1377 K

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Response of pultruded Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) beam-to-column joints with steel bolted web cleats is studied through physical testing. Two joint configurations are considered with either three or two bolts per cleat leg, as per drawings in a pultruder's Design Manual. Moment-rotation curves, failure modes and potential performance gains from semi-rigid action are determined from two batches, each having six nominally identical joints. Results show that initial joint properties for stiffness and moment can possess, at 19 to 62 % , an extremely high coefficient of variation. All joints failed by fracturing within the FRP column's flange outstands. Because this failure mode has not been reported previously there is a need to establish how its existence influences joint design. As joint properties for the three- and two-bolted configurations are not significantly different, the middle (third) bolt is found to be redundant. Damage is shown to initiate within the column flange outstands when the mid-span deflection of a 5.08 m span beam, subjected to a uniformly distributed load, is span/500. This is half the serviceability vertical deflection limit recommended in the EUROCOMP Design Code and Handbook. The mean joint moment resistance for design is established to be 2.9 kNm and this is 1.5 times the moment for damage onset.