Encouraged by the pressing demand for improving the resilience and performance of critical structural elements such as columns, an innovative lateral reinforcement was introduced and investigated in this paper with the potential of increasing the strength capacity as well as the ductility and failure configuration. The traditional lateral ties of the circular RC column were replaced with a steel wire mesh confinement and then tested experimentally. Six columns were examined under concentric compression axial load up to failure in three groups in addition to the reference column. The impact of core diameter and the number of mesh layers was evaluated. The results showed that the proposed lateral reinforcement has a positive impact on increasing the strength capacity compared with the traditional lateral ties by up to 9.5%. A specimen with two layers of wire mesh in two core diameters of 80 mm and 100 mm, respectively, showed enhanced performance in bearing capacity, ductility index, and dissipated energy by 7.5%, 6.7%, and 16%, respectively, compared to the column reinforced with conventional lateral ties.
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