Concrete columns reinforced with prestressed steel strip as a new reinforcement technology is presented in the paper

and low cycle and reverse experiments on three reinforced concrete short columns are performed

two with prestressed steel strip and with CERP.By comparing to one normal non reinforced specimens

several properties of prestressed steel strip and CFRP reinforced column are presented

such as failure modes

hysteresis curves

displacement ductility ratio

skeleton curves

energy dissipation performance and stiffness degradation and so on.The results show that the maximum increases of ultimate load of column confined by prestressed steel strip and CFRP are 30.73%and 31.04%respectively

and the maximum increases of ductility of displacement are 32.3% and 52% respectively.Under the same conditions

the confined specimens show similar seismic performance

which prevents concrete from crushing and longitudinal reinforcement from yielding;crack propagation and stiffness degradation of concrete specimen can be ameliorated.But the prestressed steel strip reinforced concrete short column have numerous distinctive advantages in economy and construction operations.