Khaled Alenezi and Talal Alhajri and M. M. Tahir and Mohamed Ragaee K. Badr and S. O. Bamaga
Strengthen of ColdFormed Steel Column with Ferrocement Jacket Push out Tests
868 - 871
2013
7
11
International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/17413
https://publications.waset.org/vol/83
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
The population growth in the world requires an increase in demand of residential and housing construction. Using lightweight construction materials such as cold formed steel sections and ferrocement could be an alternate solution to foster the construction industry. In this study, a new composite column is introduced. It consists of cold formed steel section and ferrocement jacket. The ferrocement jacket was constructed using selfcompacting mortar with two wire steel mesh of 550 MPa yield strength. Experimental push out tests was conducted to investigate the strength capacities and behavior of proposed shear connectors namely, bolt, barangle and selfdrilling screw shear connectors. It was found that bolt connector showed the best behavior followed by barangle. Also, it was concluded that the ferrocement could be used to strength and improve the behavior of cold formed steel column.
Open Science Index 83, 2013