scholarly journals Effect of Corrosion Damage on the Performance Level of a 25-Year-Old Reinforced Concrete Building

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 891-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Yalciner ◽  
Serhan Sensoy ◽  
Ozgur Eren

Corrosion is a long-term process resulting in the deterioration of the reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Most of the structural problems observed under the impact of either earthquakes or service loads might occur due to corrosion. Therefore, prediction of the remaining service life of a corroding RC structure plays an important role to prevent serious premature damage. In this study, a corroded, 25-year-old high school building which has been demolished at an earlier time was analyzed as a function of corrosion rate. Bond-slip relationships were taken into account in nonlinear analyses as a function of corrosion rate for different time periods (i.e., non-corroded (t: 0), existing (t: 25) and 50 years after construction); and they were used to ensure the effect of time-dependent slip rotation on the global structural behaviour by modifying the target post-yield stiffness of each structural member. Nonlinear push-over analyses were performed by defining the time-dependent plastic hinge properties as a consequence of corrosion effects. In order to define the performance levels of three different time periods, nonlinear incremental dynamic analyses (IDA) were performed for 20 earthquake ground motion records as a function of corrosion rate. Results showed that bond-slip relationship between concrete and steel is very important in evaluating the non-linear behaviour of corroded RC structures.

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
Xian Feng He ◽  
Shou Gang Zhao ◽  
Yuan Bao Leng

The corrosion of steel will have a bad impact on the safety of reinforced concrete structure. In severe cases, it may even be disastrous. In order to understand the impact of steel corrosion on the structure, tests are carried out to study corrosion and expansion rules of steel bars as well as the impact rules of corrosion on bond force between steel and concrete. The results show that wet and salty environment will result in steel corrosion; relatively minor corrosion will not cause expansion cracks of protection layers; when steel rust to a certain extent, it will cause cracks along the protection layer; when there exists minor corrosion in steel and the protection layer does not have expansion cracks, the bond force is still large and rapidly decreases as the corrosion rate increases.


Author(s):  
Akemi Nishida ◽  
Minoru Nagai ◽  
Haruji Tsubota ◽  
Yinsheng Li

Many empirical formulas have been proposed for evaluating local damage to reinforced concrete (RC) structures caused by impacts of rigid missiles. Most of these formulas have been derived based on impact tests normal to the target structures. Up to now, few impact tests oblique to the target structures have been carried out. This study has been conducted with the purpose of proposing a new formula for evaluating the local damage caused by oblique impacts based on previous experimental and simulation results. In this paper, the results of simulation analyses for evaluating the local damage to a RC panel subjected to normal and oblique impacts by rigid and soft missiles, by using the simulation method that was validated using the results of previous impact experiments. Based on the results of these simulation analyses, the effects of the rigidity of the missile as well as the impact angle on the local damage to the target structures are clarified.


2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kak Tien Chong ◽  
R. Ian Gilbert ◽  
Stephen J. Foster

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Yalciner

Structural blast design has become a necessary part of the design with increasing terrorist attacks. Terrorist attacks are not the one to make the structures important against blast loading where other explosions such as high gas explosions also take an important place in structural safety. The main objective of this study was to verify the structural performance levels under the impact of different blast loading scenarios. The blast loads were represented by using triangular pulse for single degree of freedom system. The effect of blast load on both corroded and uncorroded reinforced concrete buildings was examined for different explosion distances. Modified plastic hinge properties were used to ensure the effects of corrosion. The results indicated that explosion distance and concrete strength were key parameters to define the performance of the structures against blast loading.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (Special Issue on First SACEE'19) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alper Ilki ◽  
Ugur Demir

In the areas under high earthquake risk, the impact of fire damage on the seismic performance of the reinforced concrete (RC) structures ought to be realistically taken into account while assessing the fire damage to develop reuse/repair/replace strategies through the remaining service life. In the scope of this study, a literature review is conducted on the changes of mechanical characteristics of concrete and reinforcement caused by a fire with a particular emphasis on the post-cooling stage. Post-cooling behaviour of RC members is different than the behaviour under elevated temperatures and hence it is of vital importance on structural seismic performance assessment after a fire. Apart from material-wise assessment methodologies, post-fire seismic performance of RC structural members is also discussed through post-fire simulated seismic loading tests conducted on full-scale cast-in-place and precast columns. The test results pointed out to a reduction in lateral load bearing capacity of the cast-in-place columns subjected to fire whereas fire-exposed precast columns demonstrated better performance in terms of residual lateral load capacity due to the lower axial load and larger heights. All columns exhibited satisfactory performance in terms of ductility.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Huang Tang ◽  
Jianxin Peng ◽  
Linfa Xiao ◽  
Xinhua Liu ◽  
Jianren Zhang

This paper proposes 3D nonlinear finite element (FE) models to predict the response of corroded reinforced concrete (RC) beam strengthened using a steel plate. Five FE models are developed based on the tests carried out by the authors in a previous investigation, in which three models are used to simulate the corroded RC beams with different schemes. The FE models use the coupled damaged-plasticity constitutive law for concrete in tension and compression and consider the bond-slip between the corroded tensile steel bar and concrete. The cohesive element is also used to model the cohesive bond between the steel plate and concrete. The FE results of load-deflection and the crack distribution are compared with the test data. The FE results are consistent with the test results. The influence of the thickness of the steel plate, the thickness, and location of the U-shaped steel strip on the bearing capacity of the strengthened corroded beam is analyzed through FE models. The results show that the thickness of the steel plate on the bottom surface should not exceed 4 mm for the flexure-strengthened and combined strengthened beams with a 10% corrosion rate. It is most reasonable to improve the bearing capacity using the 3 mm and 2 mm of thick U-shaped steel strips for the shear-strengthened and combined strengthened beams, respectively. The most reasonable location of the U-shaped steel plate is at the end of the steel plate for beams with a 10% corrosion rate.


2012 ◽  
Vol 204-208 ◽  
pp. 1164-1169
Author(s):  
Yan Liang ◽  
Xiao Yong Luo ◽  
Ya Ou ◽  
Ao Zhou Wan

According to pull-off test on reinforced concrete specimens with different corrosion rate, their failure patterns, relationship between bonding strength and slippage, variation laws of bonding strength and slippage are studied. The calculating formula of reduction coefficient of bonding strength and slip ratio is proposed. Based on these studies, constitutive model of bond-slip performance for corroded reinforced concrete is set up. It can be seen after verification and analysis that calculated results of this model agree well with trial values, which suggests that the bond-slip constitutive model of this paper is reliable and universal.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Guorui Sun ◽  
Yi Zhang ◽  
Yubin Tian ◽  
Lizhuang Bo ◽  
Jiyang Shen ◽  
...  

This paper investigates the damage and residual bearing capacity of corroded reinforced concrete (RC) short columns after impact and presents a method for evaluating the residual bearing capacity of RC short columns by nondestructive testing. Firstly, accelerated corrosion test and drop hammer impact test were carried out to obtain specimens under different impact loads and corrosion rates. Then, the damage caused by corrosion and impact loads was evaluated by supersonic wave aided nondestructive test. Through the damage factor, the influence of corrosion rate and impact loads on the specimen was revealed, and the calculation method of corrosion rate and impact velocity was proposed. Finally, according to the bearing capacity test results, the influence factors of reinforcement, concrete, and impact were introduced into the bearing capacity calculation equation. Considering the relationship between the residual bearing capacity of RC short columns and the damage factor, an improved formula for calculating the residual bearing capacity of corroded RC short columns under impact loads was proposed. This work lays the foundation for further research on mechanical properties of corroded RC structures under impact loads.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1887
Author(s):  
Pranjal Satya ◽  
Tatsuya Asai ◽  
Masaomi Teshigawara ◽  
Yo Hibino ◽  
Ippei Maruyama

Evaluating the performance of reinforced concrete (RC) structures during earthquakes and the resultant damage in the structures depends on an accurate load–displacement relationship. Several experimental and analytical evaluation methods for load–displacement relationships have been proposed and specified in current design standards. However, there have been few quantitative studies on the impact of drying on the yielding behavior of RC members, including evaluations of the effective stiffness of members. In this study, to investigate changes in the mechanical properties of RC beam–slab members due to drying of the concrete, cyclic loading tests are conducted on two RC beam–slab members with and without drying. It is found that the lateral structural stiffness of the specimen with drying decreased to 77% that of the specimen without drying. This is verified in the calculation of the flexural stiffness. In this calculation, it is assumed that drying shrinkage decreases the moment of inertia of the slab in tension but not in compression. Meanwhile, no difference is observed in the flexural capacity and yield displacement between the two specimens. Thus, there is no significant impact from drying shrinkage in RC beam–slab members on the lateral structural performance, while the shrinkage instead induces greater flexural cracking, which reduces the residual stresses in the specimen with drift leading to a gradual decrease in the impact of drying.


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