Technological development and engineering applications of novel steel-concrete composite structures

In view of China's development trend of green building and building industrialization,based on the emerging requirements of the structural engineering community,the development and proposition of novel resourcesaving high-performance steel-concrete composite structural systems with adequate safety and durability has become a kernel development trend in structural engineering.This paper provides a state of the art review of China's cutting-edge research and technologies in steel-concrete composite structures in recent years,including the building engineering,the bridge engineering and the special engineering.This paper summarizes the technical principles and applications of the long-span bi-directional composite structures,the long-span composite transfer structures,the comprehensive crack control technique based on uplift-restricted and slip-permitted (URSP)connectors,the steel plate concrete composite (SPCC)strengthen technique,and the innovative composite joints.By improving and revising traditional structure types, the comprehensive superiority of steel-concrete composite structures is well elicited.The research results also indicate that the high-performance steel-concrete composite structures have a promising popularizing prospect in the future.

Behavior of composite rigid frame bridge under bi-directional seismic excitations

Pushover analysis and time history analysis are conducted to explore the bi-directional seismic behavior of composite steel-concrete rigid frame bridge, which is composed of RC piers and steel-concrete composite girders. Both longitudinal and transverse directions excitations are investigated using OpenSees. Firstly, the applicability of pushover analysis based on the funda- mental mode is discussed. Secondly, an improved pushover analysis method considering the contribution of higher modes is proposed, and the applicability on composite rigid frame bridges under bi-directional earthquake is verified. Based on this method, an approach to predict the displacement responses of composite rigid frame bridge under random hi-directional seismic excitations by revising the elasto-plastic demand curve is also proposed. It is observed that the developed method yield a good estimate on the responses of composite rigid frame bridges under bi-directional seismic excitations.