Steel strap confined high strength concrete under uniaxial cyclic compression

• Main Authors: Lee, Hoong-Pin, Awang, Abdullah Zawawi, Omar, Wahid
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/62666/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2014.08.007
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

This paper discusses an affordable and effective lateral confinement technique to enhance concrete's compressive strength and ductility - the steel strapping tensioning technique (SSTT). Considerable studies have been done on the characteristics of SSTT-confined concrete under uniaxial monotoni...