Axially loaded reinforced concrete columns are hardly exist in practice due to the development of some bending\nmoments. These moments could be produced by gravity loads or the lateral loads. First, the current paper presents a detailed\nanalysis on the overall structural behavior of 15 eccentrically loaded columns as well as one concentrically loaded control one.\nColumns bent in either single curvature or double curvature modes are tested experimentally up to failure under the effect of\ndifferent end eccentricities combinations. Three end eccentricities ratio were studied, namely, 0.1b, 0.3b and 0.5b, where b is the\ncolumn width. Second, an expression correlated the decay in the normalized axial capacity of the column and the acting end\neccentricities was developed based on the experimental results and then verified against the available formula. Third, based on\nthe equivalent column concept, the equivalent pin-ended columns were obtained for columns bent in either single or double\ncurvature modes. And then, the effect of end eccentricity ratio was correlated to the equivalent column length. Finally, a\nsimplified design procedure was proposed for eccentrically loaded braced column by transferring it to an equivalent axially\nloaded pin-ended slender column. The results of the proposed design procedure showed comparable results against the results of\nthe ACI 318-14 code.
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