“…Stiffness, strength, ductility, seismic and fire resistance, deformation characteristics, elimination of formwork costs, installation, economy, and good performance are among the advantages achieved in using such a structural system. Accordingly, a great deal of experimental research works has been done by Zeghiche and Chaoui (2005), Ellobody et al (2006), Yang and Han (2006), Guo et al (2007), Lai and Ho (2014), Feng et al (2015), and Wang et al (2015) among many others, to investigate the behaviour of CFST columns. Alternatively, much numerical research work has been reported by Shams and Saadeghvaziri (1999), Hu et al (2003), Valipour and Foster (2010), Liang (2011), Tao et al (2013), Wang and Young (2013), Patel et al (2014), Zhang et al (2015), Aslani et al (2015), and analytical studies by Choi and Xiao (2010), Schneider (1998), Brauns (1999, Susantha et al (2001), Fam et al (2004), Kuranovas et al (2009).…”