Experimental and numerical study on thin-walled hollow bridge piers

Research on thin-walled hollow bridge piers is of great importance to the large bridge. To study the nonlinear behavior of the thin-walled hollow bridge piers, two rectangular pier specimens have been tested under quasi-static cyclic lateral displacement and different axial loads. For easier comparison, these two specimens have been tested with constant load and varied load separately. Then an MSC. Marc model is built to compare the skeleton line and energy dissipation properties with experimental results. In consideration of the impact of some important parameters, a parametric numerical model has been built to test its performance with experimental results adopting different axial force and wall height-to-thickness ratio.

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