Tensile behaviour of double headed anchored blind bolt in concrete filled square hollow section under cyclic loading

Abstract

This paper presents the tensile behaviour of individual Double Headed Anchored Blind Bolts (DHABBs) which are anchored within Concrete Filled Square Hollow Section (CFSHS) tubes. The DHABB consists of a conventional Headed Anchored Blind Bolt (HABB) with one additional middle head, between the existing end head in the embedded region and head next to the tube wall. A series of experiments were conducted on the pull-out of single DHABBs under monotonic and cyclic loading using different tube sizes, bolt sizes and concrete types. Detailed results from the experimental work are presented in this paper. A comprehensive three dimensional finite element model was developed and the results were com..