1st Edition

Tubular Structures X Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium, Madrid, Spain, 18-20 September 2003

Edited By M A Jaurietta, Jose A Chica, Angel Alonso Copyright 2003

    This volume contains the Kurobane lecture and proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Tubular Structures - ISTS10, held in Madrid, Spain, 18-20 September 2003. The ISTS10 provides a platform for the presentation and discussion of seventy-three lectures covering themes including: bridges; roofs; design aspects and case studies; static joint behaviour; fatigue; members; beam-column connections; finite element methods; concrete filled tubes; trusses and frames; cast nodes; and behaviour of tubular structures under fire. This book provides a useful reference work for architects, civil and mechanical engineers, designers, manufacturers and contractors involved with tubular structures.

    1: Kurobane lecture; 1: Whither tubular structures research?; 2: Papers in plenary sessions: Applications – bridges; 2: Brigde over the Llobregat river (Barcelona, Spain) and bridge over the Escudo river (Cantabria, Spain); 3: Two tubular arch bridges; 4: The “Ronda de la Hispanidad” pedestrian bridge in Zaragoza (Spain); 5: A cable-stayed pedestrian bridge in Madrid (Spain); 6: Pedestrian bridges in Spain and the Milwaukee Art Museum (USA): Some examples of engineering and architectural design with steel hollow sections; 7: Use of tubular truss for the design of twin composite viaducts at Echevarri Overpass, in Vitoria, Spain; 8: Welded circular hollow section (CHS) joints in bridges; 3: Papers in plenary sessions: Applications – roofs; 9: Roof structure to the new multi-purpose arena in the Casa de Campo Park of Madrid; 10: Main roof structures in the extension and remodelling of the Valencia Exhibition Centre (Spain); 11: An oval design. A new proposal and a new methodology; 12: The analysis of a great roof and the design criteria; 13: The roof of the International Solar Center in Berlin – When engineers take control; 14: Steel structure in Bilbao Exhibition Centre; 15: Single-layered space frame dome on the top of the Friesland Bank in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; 16: Roofs for covering large spans consisting of space structures; 4: Papers in plenary sessions: Cast nodes; fire; 17: To cast or not to cast; 18: Cast steel in tubular bridges – New applications and technologies; 19: Cast steel joints for tubular structures; 20: The effects of local buckling on the effective length of rotationally restrained concrete filled tubular columns in fire; 21: Swiss Re building, London – fire resistance of tubular steel structure; 5: Papers in plenary sessions: Applications – miscellaneous; 22: Some applications of tubular construction in Spain; 23: Manufacturing experience of tubular structures formed by curved tubes; 6: Static joints; 24: Chord pre-load effect on thick-walled CHS X-joints under moment loading; 25: Testing of flattened-end tube stubs; 26: The strength of multiplanar KK-joints of square hollow sections; 27: RHS K joints with b/t ratios and gaps not covered by Eurocode 3; 28: Investigation on hidden RHS-joint connections under tensile loading; 29: The capacity of cold-formed rectangular hollow section K-gap joints; 30: Pre-qualification of groove welded connections between equal-width RHS; 31: Strength estimation of offshore ring-stiffened DT-joints; 32: Static strength of elliptical hollow section X-joint under brace compression; 33: Testing and modelling of welded joints between elliptical hollow sections; 7: Members; 34: Torsion tests on small and large-scale RHS with circular wall cut-outs; 35: An assessment of the rotation capacity required by structural hollow sections for plastic analysis; 36: Measuring imperfections in hollow sections; 37: Recommendations for cold-formed RHS in bending and compression; 8: Fatigue; 38: The fatigue behaviour of diamond bird beak T-joints; 39: Fatigue behaviour of welded thin cold-formed CHS-CHS T-joints under in-plane bending; 40: Fatigue behaviour of welded thin CHS-plate T-joints under in-plane bending; 41: Advanced SCF formulae for simple and multi-planar tubular joints; 42: Fatigue behaviour of improved tubular bridge joints; 43: Estimation of stress intensity factors of weld toe surface cracks in tubular K-joints; 44: Fatigue behaviour of cast steel nodes in bridge structures; 45: Fatigue behaviour of welded CHS bridge joints: emphasis on the effect of size; 46: Fatigue analysis of square-to-square tubular T-joint with surface crack; 9: Beam-column connections; 47: Behaviour of steel H-shaped-beam-to-hollow-column connection with horizontal haunch and its optimum length; 48: The performance of a new blind-bolt for moment-resisting connections; 49: The use of fast-fit connections for beam to tubular column joints; 50: Brittle fracture of beam-column welded joints containing defects – significance of crack tip constraint; 51: Full-scale testing of beam-to-column connections with partial joint penetration groove welded joints; 52: Tubular column to H-beam connections without diaphragms; 53: Fully restrained beam-to-RHS column connections with improved details; 54: Flexural behaviour of H section beam webs connected with hollow section columns; 55: Behaviour of SHS column to beam end plate connection with high strength bolts; 10: Finite element methods; 56: Numerical models for bolted RHS flange-plate connections under tensile loading; 57: Quantifying the yield loads, strain hardening and membrane action contributions for hollow section connections; 58: FE modelling of tube nodes and comparative strain measurements; 59: Investigations on simplified modelling of framework collapse analyses with non-linear joint behaviour; 60: On the definition of a material model for finite element analysis of cold-formed structural hollow section K-joints; 61: Finite element analysis of buckling behavior of steel tubes under axial and lateral loads; 62: Explicit FE simulations of large-scale tests on beam-to-RHS column connections; 11: Concrete-filled tubes; 63: Seismic-resistant capacity of multistorey frames with CFT truss girders; 64: Weight falling tests on the rock-shed composed of CFT-members; 65: Capacity to carry static load at the corner joints of a rigid frame with concrete-filled circular steel pipes; 66: Elasto-plastic behavior of concrete-filled steel tubular columns; 67: Seismic design and ductility issues in concrete-filled steel tubular structures; 12: Trusses; Frames; 68: An efficient and direct method for buckling analysis of tubular steel frame structures; 69: An analysis method of moment-resistant frames taking account of local buckling of RHS columns; 70: Load-carrying capacity of a new type of lattice tubular column; 13: CIDECT President’s student award papers; 71: Tube-in-tube spliced connections with stainless steel nails; 72: Study of the behaviour of welded joints composed of elliptical hollow sections; 73: The behaviour of hollow section connections under seismic loading

    Biography

    Angel Alonso