Surrogate models for the damage responses of a reinforced concrete beam under explosive charges utilizing coupled finite element–stochastic methods

Author(s):  
Nazim Abdul Nariman ◽  
Martin Husek ◽  
Ayad Mohammad Ramadan
2016 ◽  
Vol 857 ◽  
pp. 421-425
Author(s):  
Saif M. Thabet ◽  
S.A. Osman

This paper presents an investigation into the flexural behaviour of reinforced concrete beam with opening reinforced with two different materials i.e., steel and Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP). Comparison study between the two different materials were carried out and presented in this study through non-linear Finite Element Method (FEM) using the commercial ABAQUS 6.10 software package. The performance of the opening beam reinforced with GFRP is influenced by several key parameters. Simulation analyses were carried out to determine the behavior of beam with opening subjected to monotonic loading. The main parameters considered in this study are size of opening and reinforcement diameter. The results show that GFRP give 23%-29% more ductility than steel reinforcement. The result also shows when the size of opening change from 200mm to 150mm or from 150mm to 100mm the ultimate load capacity increase by 15%. In general, good agreement between the Finite Element (FE) simulation and the available experimental result has been obtained.


2018 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 02016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yehya Temsah ◽  
Ali Jahami ◽  
Jamal Khatib ◽  
M Sonebi

Many engineering facilities are severely damaged by blast loading. Therefore, many manufacturers of sensitive, breakable, and deformed structures (such as facades of glass buildings) carry out studies and set standards for these installations to withstand shock waves caused by explosions. Structural engineers also use these standards in their designs for various structural elements by following the ISO Damage Carve, which links pressure and Impulse. As all the points below this curve means that the structure is safe and will not exceed the degree of damage based on the various assumptions made. This research aims to derive the Iso-Damage curve of a reinforced concrete beam exposed to blast wave. An advanced volumetric finite element program (ABAQUS) will be used to perform the derivation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 1934-1947
Author(s):  
Dapeng Chen ◽  
Li Chen ◽  
Qin Fang ◽  
Yuzhou Zheng ◽  
Teng Pan

The bending behavior of reinforced concrete beams under uniform pressure is critical for the research of the blast-resistance performance of structural components under explosive loads. In this study, a bending test of five reinforced concrete beams with the dimensions of 200 mm (width) × 200 mm (depth) × 2500 mm (length) under uniform load produced by a specific cylinder-shaped rubber bag filled with air or water was conducted to investigate their flexural performances. An air bag load was applied to three of the reinforced concrete beams, a water bag load was applied to one reinforced concrete beam, and the remainder beam was subjected to the 4-point bending load. The experimental results highlighted that the air bag and water bag loading methods can be used to effectively apply uniform loads to reinforced concrete beams. Moreover, the stiffness of the air bag was improved by 123% in accordance with the initial pressure increases from 0.15 to 0.45 MPa. In addition, a finite element model of the test loading system was established using ABAQUS/Standard software. Moreover, the critical factors of the air bag loading method were analyzed using the numerical model. The calculated results were found to be in good agreement with the test data. The established finite element model can therefore be used to accurately simulate the action performances of the uniform loading technique using rubber bags filled with air or water.


Author(s):  
R Padma Rani & R Harshani

Structural analysis is used to assess the behavior of engineering structures under the application of loads. Usually, structural analysis methods include analytical,experimental and numerical methods is used in thisproject, however, only Analytical method is used and the values are taken from literature reference, to get familiar with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using ANSYS, this is done to acquire practical knowledge about of the effect of the cover. The aim is to identify different failure modes under a range of loading conditions by changing the cover size to get the data of various parameters such as deflection, stress etc. Study of cover helps to observe the stability, reliability and the overall strength of the structural beam. This project attempts made to study the effect of cover on the behavior of reinforced concrete beam. Forthis analytical study, the Reinforced concrete beam specimen of 2000x100x200mm was considered.ANSYS software is a suite of engineering simulation software, based on finite element method, which can solve problems ranging from linear analysis to nonlinear analysis. The Doubly reinforced beams weremodeled by using geometry. In this model,various covers are provided. The beam specimensused in this study were tested under two-point static loading condition until failure of the specimen. From theobtained resultconcluded that the total deformation and directional deformation values are low in 25mm cover compared to other cases but the equivalent stress value is low in 35mm cover size compared to 25mm cover size.


2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Chieh Yip ◽  
Jing-Ying Wong ◽  
Ka-Wai Hor

Software simulation enables design engineers to have a better picture of possible structural failure behaviour and determine the accuracy of a design before the actual structural component is fabricated. Finite element analysis is used to simulate the behaviour of the reinforced concrete beam under the flexural test. During the flexural test, results are recorded for both simulation and experimental tests. By comparing the results, beam displacement, crack patterns, and failure modes can be studied with better accuracy. The accuracy percentage for yield load and ultimate load between the two tests results were 94.12 % and 95.79 %, respectively, whereas the accuracy percentage for elastic gradient before the yielding stage was 81.08 %. The behaviour between simulation and laboratory models described is based on crack pattern and failure mode. The progression of von Mises (VM) stresses highlighted the critical areas of the reinforced concrete beam and correlation between the experimental specimen, in terms of flexural cracks, shear cracks, yielding of tension reinforcement, and the crushing of concrete due to compressive stress. This paper concludes that simulation can achieve a significant accuracy in terms of loads and failure behaviour compared to the experimental model.


2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Elmorsi ◽  
M Reza Kianoush ◽  
W K Tso

A new finite element model for reinforced concrete beam-column joints is proposed. The model considers the effects of bond-slip and shear deformations in the joint panel region. The problems associated with modeling bond-slip of anchored reinforcing bars are discussed. The proposed bond-slip model is examined at the element level by comparing its predictions with other analytical and experimental results. The ability of the model to simulate bond deterioration and eventual pullout of anchored reinforcing bars under severe cyclic excitation is demonstrated. This model is incorporated into the global beam-column joint element. Further comparisons are made between the predictions of the proposed beam-column joint model and other analytical and experimental results under reversed cyclic loading to show the validity of the model to describe the bond-slip behavior of the joints.Key words: bond, bond-slip, finite element, beam-column, reinforced concrete, cyclic.


2014 ◽  
Vol 638-640 ◽  
pp. 208-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Yuan Li ◽  
Bin Guo ◽  
Jiang Liu

Increasing the beam cross section is a kind of traditional and universal strengthening methods of civil structure. The mechanical performance test were studied on the mechanics performance and deformation of four reinforced concrete beams in this study. The results show that increase of the cross section and tensile area at the bottom of the steel could effectively improve the performance of mechanical. The beam crack load, yield load, ultimate load and bending strength are increasing with cross section and mechanical. By simulating the relationship bwteen load and deflection. It is concluded that The finite element simulation of reinforced concrete beam with the reasonable concrete unit and reinforced unit can meet the demand of practical engineering.


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