Abstract:Theconceptofconfinedconcretehasbeenwidelyacceptedthroughoutthestructuralengineeringfield,suchasthespiral,steel
tube, or carbon fiber composite shell confined concrete, etc. In the present study, this concept has not only been used in the structural
columns, but also in joints. In this connection system, the steel tube is interrupted at the floor, the concrete in the connection zone is
confinedbyastiffeningringwithmultiplelateralhoops,andthereinforcedconcretebeamsarecontinuouslyarrangedthroughthejoint.
The structural behavior of this new connection system in axial compression tests and reversed cyclic loading tests is presented in a
companionpaper.Inthepresentstudy,thebearingstrengthofcompositecolumnsandthejointinaxialcompressionisobtainedbasedon
thestressandstrainanalyses.Thecriticalvolumefractionoftransversestirrupsofthecompositecolumnandtheeffectiveconfiningradius
inthestiffeningringareproposedbasedonthethickcylindermodelwiththeassumptionofplanestressstate.Byusingthesesolutions,
itisfavorabletoobtainthestressdistributioninconfiningconcreteandthebearingstrengthoftheconfinedconcrete.Forthereversed
cyclicloadingtests,theCloughhysteresismodelisusedtosimulatethehysteresisloopsofthespecimenswithoutconsideringthestiffness
degradation in the unloading process. The results of the theoretical modeling are generally in good agreement with the experimental
observations.