Mechanical behavior of locally corroded circular steel tube under compression

Localized corrosion often occurs on steel members due to paint peeling led from insufficient durability of the coating material or human collision, which may significantly reduce the load carrying capacity and safety performance of the structures. The effects of the parameters such as localized corrosion penetration, circumferential corrosion ratio, longitudinal corrosion ratio, slenderness ratio and eccentricity of mechanical behaviors of locally corroded circular steel tubes under compression were studied experimentally and numerically. Based on the test results and the finite element analysis, a calculation method was proposed for predicting load carrying capacity of the corroded specimen under compression. It is found that localized corrosion did not change the failure modes of test specimens, and all of them failed in the limit point buckling mode. The factors affecting the degradation of load carrying capacity and stiffness of localized corrosion specimens from high to low were corrosion time, circumferential corrosion ratio and longitudinal corrosion ratio. The most unfavorable localized corrosion modes of load carrying capacity and stiffness were H3L3-270 and H3L1-270, respectively. The load carrying capacity degradation of members increases with the increase of the localized corrosion ratio, circumferential corrosion ratio and longitudinal corrosion ratio, while decreases with the increase of the eccentricity. The formula proposed can be used to predict the load carrying capacity of locally corroded circular steel tube members under compression.

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Localized corrosion can significantly reduce the load carrying capacity and safety performance of steel structures. A calculation method was proposed based on experimental and numerical studies to predict the load carrying capacity of locally corroded circular steel tubes under compression. Factors affecting the degradation of load carrying capacity and stiffness of localized corrosion specimens were identified.