Bending behaviour of lightweight aggregate concrete-filled steel tube spatial truss beam

A lightweight aggregate concrete-filled steel tube(LACFST) spatial truss beam was tested under bending load. The performance was studied by the analysis of the beam deflection and strains in its chords and webs. According to the test results, several assumptions were made to deduce the bearing capacity calculation method based on the force balance of the whole section. An optimal dimension relationship for the truss beam chords was proposed and verified by finite element analysis. Results show that the LACFST spatial truss beam failed after excessive deflection. The strain distribution agreed with Bernoulli-Euler theoretical prediction. The truss beam flexural bearing capacity calculation results matched test evidence with only a 3% difference between the two. Finite element analyses with different chord dimensions show that the ultimate bearing capacity increases as the chord dimensions increase when the chords have a diameter smaller than optimal one; otherwise, it remains almost unchanged as the chord dimensions increase.

Mechanical Property Evaluation on the Bending and Compressing Behaviour of Nano-beam

Based on quasicontinuum（QC） multiscale simulation method,a series of simulation models were set up for bending and compressing rod-shaped microstructure of single crystal Cu.The effects of structural parameters on typical mechanical properties were analyzed,such as elastic modulus,elastic limit,yield strength,and Poisson’s ratio.According to the analysis of displacement,inner stress and strain energy,the mechanisms of deformation and failure were also revealed.The experimental result shows that the mechanical properties exhibit obvious size effect during the bending and compression process.In the bending simulation,when the span-thickness ratio is more than 10,the elastic modulus rises slightly with the increase of strain.And the smaller the beam is,the faster the elastic modulus grows.Meanwhile,when the spanthickness ratio keeps constant the elastic modulus will decrease with the growth of the beam sizes.However,in the compression model,the size effect on Poisson’s ratio is not remarkable.The dimensional change in one direction cannot influence the mechanical parameters greatly.Mechanical twins and dislocation contribute to the compression behaviour greatly.Meanwhile,the stress concentration can also be found in the inner partial area and the strain energy decreases abruptly after the crush of beam microstructure.