“…As an alternative method, concrete-filled precast concrete tube (CFPCT) columns have elicited considerable attention because they provide an effective and economical solution to the above issues. In the past few decades, similar types of columns with various details have been investigated under different names such as half PC columns (Choi et al, 2000;Hamada et al, 1998), outer-shell PC columns (Hosoya et al, 2001;Hosoya and Asano, 2000;Hosoya and Hukuyama, 2008;Iso et al, 1999;Masuda and Yoshioka, 1994;Zhang et al, 2009), semi-PC columns (Xiao et al, 2012(Xiao et al, , 2013, concretefilled hollow PC columns (Kim et al, 2016(Kim et al, , 2017Lee et al, 2014;Lim et al, 2014;Park et al, 2015), or CFPCT columns (Ding et al, 2017;Shan et al, 2017;Wu et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2018a). In this method, a PC tube can be prefabricated in factory, and after erecting the PC tube on site, a composite column composed of PC tube and filled concrete can be completed by filling the core with cast-in-place concrete.…”