Experimental investigation of fibre-reinforced concrete deck slabs without internal steel reinforcement

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aftab A. Mufti ◽  
Leslie G. Jaeger ◽  
Baidar Bakht ◽  
Leon D. Wegner
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Slab ◽  
Steel Reinforcement ◽  
Punching Shear ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Slab ◽  
Shear Connectors ◽  
Deck Slabs ◽  
Concrete Deck ◽  
Deck Slab

It is now well established that concrete deck slabs of slab-on-girder bridges subjected to concentrated loads develop an internal arching system provided that certain conditions of confinement of the concrete are met. Because of this arching system, the deck slab, being predominantly in compression, fails in punching shear rather than in flexure. This aspect of deck slab behaviour, coupled with the corrosion problems associated with steel reinforcement in concrete, has prompted the authors to investigate the feasibility of fibre-reinforced concrete decks that are entirely devoid of steel. Through tests on a small number of half-scale models, it has been established that fibre-reinforced concrete slab with inexpensive non-ferrous fibres is indeed feasible, provided that the top flanges of the steel girders are connected just below the deck by transverse steel straps and the concrete deck is joined to the girders and diaphragms by shear connectors. The straps and shear connectors together provide the restraint necessary for development of the internal arching system in the slab, whilst the fibres control cracking due to the effects of shrinkage and temperature in the concrete. This paper describes the exploratory model tests and presents their results. Key words: deck slab, fibre-reinforced concrete, internal arching, punching shear, slab-on-girder bridge.

Deck slabs of skew girder bridges

1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 514-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baidar Bakht ◽  
Akhilesh C. Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Shear Failure ◽  
Highway Bridges ◽  
Steel Reinforcement ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Girder Bridges ◽  
Deck Slabs ◽  
Concrete Deck ◽  
Deck Slab

Canadian codes allow the design of concrete deck slabs of slab-on-girder bridges by taking account of the internal arching action that develops in these slabs under concentrated wheel loads in particular. Provided that certain prescribed conditions are met, a deck slab is deemed to have met the design criteria if it is provided with a top and a bottom layer of steel reinforcement with each layer consisting of an orthogonal mesh of steel bars in which the area of cross section of the bars in each direction is at least 0.3% of the effective area of cross section of the deck slab. For deck slabs of bridges having skew angles greater than 20°, the codes require the minimum amount of reinforcement to be doubled in the end zones near the skew supports. Model testing has shown that need for such an increase can be eliminated by providing composite end diaphragms with high flexural rigidity in the horizontal plane. The proposed concept is tested on a model of fibre-reinforced concrete deck without steel reinforcement in which deficiencies in the confinement of the deck slab readily manifest themselves in form of a bending, rather than punching shear, failure. Key words: highway bridges, bridge decks, deck slabs, skew deck, skew bridges, fibre-reinforced concrete decks.

Analysis on Punching Shear Behavior of the Raft Slab Reinforced with Steel Fibers

2008 ◽  
Vol 400-402 ◽  
pp. 335-340
Author(s):  
Xiao Wei Wang ◽  
Wen Ling Tian ◽  
Zhi Yuan Huang ◽  
Ming Jie Zhou ◽  
Xiao Yan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Slab ◽  
Shear Behavior ◽  
Shear Capacity ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Punching Shear ◽  
Concrete Slabs ◽  
Mass Concrete ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Slab ◽  
The Common

The thickness of the raft slab is determined by punching shear. The raft slab is commonly thick, which causes concrete volume is large. Mass concrete can bring disadvantage to the foundation. In order to increase the bearing capacity and reduce the thickness, it is suggested that the raft slab to be reinforced by steel fibers. There are five groups of specimens in this paper. S1 is the common reinforced concrete slab. S2 and S3 are concrete slabs reinforced by steel fibers broadcasted layer by layer when casting specimen. S4 and S5 are concrete slabs reinforced by steel fibers mixed homogeneously when making concrete. The punching shear tests of these slabs were done. The test results indicate that the punching shear capacity of the slab reinforced with steel fibers is higher than that of concrete slab, the stiffness and crack resistance of the steel fibers reinforced concrete slab are better than those of the common concrete slab and the punching shear of the slabs with different construction methods of steel fibers is similar. It analyses the punching shear behavior of the slab reinforced with steel fibers and suggests the ultimate bearing formula. The calculative values are coincided with the measured values well.

Punching Shear Strengthening at the New Station Square in Berne, Switzerland

2010 ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Dominic Joray ◽  
Martin Diggelmann
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Slab ◽  
Punching Shear ◽  
Shear Reinforcement ◽  
Shear Strengthening ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Slab

<p>The reinforced concrete slab of the reconstructed Station Square in Berne needed to be strengthened against punching shear. The case study led to the application of a newly developed post-installed punching shear reinforcement with inclined bonded bars.</p>

Experimental investigation of the role of reinforcement in the strength of concrete deck slabs

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Shervan Khanna ◽  
Aftab A Mufti ◽  
Baidar Bakht
Keyword(s):  
Steel Reinforcement ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Transverse Reinforcement ◽  
Deck Slabs ◽  
Steel Bars ◽  
Failure Loads ◽  
Transverse Steel ◽  
Concrete Deck ◽  
Deck Slab

To study systematically the role of each layer of steel reinforcement in conventionally reinforced deck slabs of girder bridges, a full-scale model was built of a 175 mm thick concrete deck slab on two steel girders with a center-to-center spacing of 2.0 m. The 12 m long deck slab was conceptually divided into four 3 m long segments, identified as segments A, B, C, and D. Segment A contained isotropic steel reinforcement in two layers, conforming to the requirements of the Ontario Highway Bridge Design Code (OHBDC). Segment B contained only the bottom layer of steel reinforcement. Segment C contained only the bottom transverse steel bars. Segment D contained only bottom transverse glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars having the same axial stiffness, but 8.6 times the axial tensile strength, as those of the steel bars in segment C. Each segment of the deck slab was tested to failure under a central concentrated load, simulating the dual tire footprint of 250 × 500 mm dimension of a typical commercial vehicle. All segments failed in the punching shear mode. The failure loads for the four segments were found to be 808, 792, 882, and 756 kN, respectively; these failure loads are similar in magnitude to that of a 175 mm thick steel-free deck slab with steel straps having nearly the same cross-sectional area per metre length of the slab as those of the bottom transverse steel bars in the first three segments. The tests on the four segments of the full-scale model have confirmed that (i) only the bottom transverse reinforcement influences the load carrying capacity of a reinforced concrete deck slab and (ii) the stiffness of the bottom transverse reinforcement, rather than its strength, is of paramount importance.Key words: arching, deck slab, FRP, shake down, slab-on-girder bridge.

scholarly journals NUMERICAL STUDY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE PLATES IN THE PRESSURE AREA

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
Zulfat Sh. GALYAUTDINOV
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Concrete Slab ◽  
Linear Formulation ◽  
Punching Shear ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Slab ◽  
Variable Parameters ◽  
Pressure Area ◽  
Abaqus Software ◽  
Made In

Here is the description of fi nite elementmodels of joints between reinforced concrete slab and column, made in the SIMULIA ABAQUS software package. The variable parameters were the ratio of the sides of the column cmax/cmin and the ratio of the side of the column to the eff ective depth c/h0. The calculation is performed in a non-linear formulation. Finite elementmodels showed realistic behavior: a punching shear pyramid was detected. It was found a signifi cant unevenness in the distribution of tangential deformations, as well as the main compressive deformations of the concrete slab near the column. The nature of the formation and development of the punching shear pyramid depends on the value of the ratio of the sides of the column cmax/cmin and the ratio of the side of the column to the eff ective depth slab c/h0.

Effect of Column Dimensions on the Punching Shear of Flat Slab

2019 ◽  
pp. 378-393
Author(s):  
Hamid Abdulmahdi Faris ◽  
Lubna Mohammed Abd
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Shear Failure ◽  
Concrete Slab ◽  
The Other ◽  
Punching Shear ◽  
Concrete Slabs ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Slab ◽  
Flat Slab ◽  
Interior Edge ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Slabs

The "flat slab" is a reinforced concrete slab bolstered, by a number of columns. Punching, shear is a category for collapse for reinforced concrete slabs exposed to great confined forces. In "flat slab" constructions the shear failure happens, at column bolster joints. To avoid this, collapse two methods are used, first method is increasing the column dimensions and, the other is to use drop panel if the first method leads to uneconomical, design. Two examples are used to find the effect, of column dimensions, increase on the punching shear failure of "flat slab". The first example, is a "flat slab" of span (5 by 5) m and the other is of span (6 by 6) m. The column which examined is the interior, edge and corner columns, and the interior column is the most dangerous case. It is concluded that, the increase of column dimensions are lead to avoid of punching shear failure in "flat slab" and the drop panel is enlarge the area of the critical shear perimeter and this avoiding punching shear failure.

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