THEORETICAL STRESS-STRAIN MODEL FOR CONFINED CONCRETE By J
Mander,1 M
Priestley,2 and R
Park, 3 Fellow, ASCE ABSTRACT: A stress-strain model is developed for concrete subjected to uniaxial compressive loading and confined by transverse reinforcement
The concrete section may contain any general type of confining steel: either spiral or circular hoops; or rectangular hoops with or without supplementary cross ties
These cross ties can have either equal or unequal confining stresses along each of the transverse axes
A single equation is used for the stress-strain equation
The model allows for cyclic loading and includes the effect of strain rate
The influence of various types of confinement is taken into account by defining an effective lateral confining stress, which is depen