Study on Behaviour of Prefabricated Cage Steel Reinforced Concrete Beam Column Joint

Abstract

Prefabricated Cage Steel is fabricated by perforating hollow steel tubes or steel plates. PCS can be used as the entire or part of the reinforcement in concrete columns, beams, beam-column joints, shear walls, foundations, slabs, retaining walls or other structural members. A series of experiments on composite beam column joint reinforced with Prefabricated Cage System is reported. The experiments include two series of composite beams. Companion specimens of concrete cylinders and cubes were tested for compressive strength and splitting tensile strength. Specimens of cold formed steel are reinforced and casted as interior beam column joint. In this study, cyclic loading has been imposed on interior beam joint and its load – deflection behavior has been studied.