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Tubular structures are rather efficient systems due to the ease of fabrication, erection, and the high strength-to-weight ratio of their elements. However, they have seen limited use due to difficulties associated with the design and execution of joints. This scenario has changed over the years as more research focused on the behavior of these structural elements, leading to the appearance of design recommendations for some tubular joint configurations. Recently, a new plug-and-play joint configuration suitable for hybrid modular construction systems, comprising tubular columns, lightweight cold-formed steel truss-girders and cross-laminated timber slabs, has been developed in the scope of the INNO3DJOINTS project (RFCS No. 749959). The mechanical behavior of the structural system was experimentally analyzed, and macro-element models suitable for global structural analysis, explicitly including the joint behavior, were developed. In tubular structures, the out-of-plane behavior of the column’s faces is influenced by the condition of each individual face and the three-dimensional interaction between them. Currently, there is no universally accepted modelling approach for this interaction under various loading conditions. This study addresses this issue and presents a general three-dimensional macro-model for the beam-to-column joints based on the component method and accounting for the interaction between the faces of the tubular column. The architecture of the macro-element of the joint is implemented in a finite element object-oriented software framework, OpenSees, as a standalone joint finite element, and its robustness is verified by using high-order finite element commercial software.
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This work was partly financed by:
FCT/MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC) under the R&D Unit Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), under reference UIDB/04029/2020.
the Research Fund for Coal and Steel under grant agreement No. 749959 (INNO3DJOINTS).
national funds through FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, under grant agreement SFRH/BD/138151/2018 attributed to Cristian Miculaș.
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Miculaş, C.V., Costa, R.J., Simões da Silva, L., Simões, R., Craveiro, H., Tankova, T. (2023). Macro-modelling of the Three-Dimensional Interaction Between the Faces of a Steel Tubular Column Joint. In: Di Trapani, F., Demartino, C., Marano, G.C., Monti, G. (eds) Proceedings of the 2022 Eurasian OpenSees Days. EOS 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 326. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30125-4_37
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