scholarly journals Experimental analysis of steel fiber reinforced concrete beams in shear

2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Kadima Lukanu Lwa Nzambi ◽  
Dênio Ramam Carvalho de Oliveira ◽  
Marcus Vinicius dos Santos Monteiro ◽  
Luiz Felipe Albuquerque da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Reinforcement Ratio ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Experimental Program ◽  
Longitudinal Reinforcement ◽  
Fiber Addition

Abstract Some normative recommendations are conservative in relation to the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams, not directly considering the longitudinal reinforcement rate. An experimental program containing 8 beams of (100 x 250) mm2 and a length of 1,200 mm was carried out. The concrete compression strength was 20 MPa with and without 1.00% of steel fiber addition, without stirrups and varying the longitudinal reinforcement ratio. Comparisons between experimental failure loads and main design codes estimates were assessed. The results showed that the increase of the longitudinal reinforcement ratio from 0.87% to 2.14% in beams without steel fiber led to an improvement of 59% in shear strength caused by the dowel effect, while the corresponding improvement was of only 22% in fibered concrete beams. A maximum gain of 109% in shear strength was observed with the addition of 1% of steel fibers comparing beams with the same longitudinal reinforcement ratio (1.2%). A significant amount of shear strength was provided by the inclusion of the steel fibers and allowed controlling the propagation of cracks by the effect of stress transfer bridges, transforming the brittle shear mechanism into a ductile flexural one. From this, it is clear the shear benefit of the steel fiber addition when associated to the longitudinal reinforcement and optimal values for this relationship would improve results.

Effect of Beam Depth and Longitudinal Reinforcement Ratio on Shear Strength of RC Beams

2010 ◽  
Vol 163-167 ◽  
pp. 1460-1465
Author(s):  
Lei Yu ◽  
Yi Che ◽  
Xin Feng Zheng ◽  
Jin Xin Gong ◽  
Yu Pu Song
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Reinforcement Ratio ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Shear Behaviour ◽  
Longitudinal Reinforcement ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Beam Depth ◽  
Insight Into

Seven beams were tested to investigate the effects of beam depth and longitudinal reinforcement ratio on the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams. To investigate the effects of beam depth on shear strength, beams of five different sizes were tested. Two beams were designed to investigate the shear behaviour of beams with small percentage of longitudinal reinforcement. In addition to an experimental investigation, a survey of data in the literature was performed to gain insight into the influence of beam depth and longitudinal reinforcement ratio. Based on test results and a data analysis, conclusions regarding the influence of beam depth and longitudinal reinforcement ratio on shear strength of reinforced concrete beams are presented herein.

scholarly journals Influence of Steel Fiber on the Shear Strength of a Concrete Beam

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 1501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ammar Hameed ◽  
Mohannad Husain Al-Sherrawi
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Shear Failure ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Shear Capacity ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Shear Reinforcement

The shear failure in a concrete beam is a brittle type of failure. The addition of steel fibers in a plain concrete mix helps to bridge and restrict the cracks formed in the brittle concrete under applied loads, and enhances the ductility of the concrete. In this research an attempt was made to investigate the behavior and the ultimate shear strength of hooked end steel fiber reinforced concrete beams without traditional shear reinforcement. Four simply-supported reinforced concrete beams with a shear span-to-depth ratio of about 3.0 were tested under two-point loading up to failure. Steel fibers volumetric fractions that used were 0.0, 0.5, 0.75 and 1.0%. Test results indicated that using 1.0% volume fraction of hooked steel fiber led to exclude shear failure and enhanced the use of steel fibers as shear reinforcement in concrete beams. The results also showed that a concrete beam with hooked steel fiber provided higher post-flexural-cracking stiffness, an increase in the shear capacity and energy absorption and an increase in the maximum concrete and steel reinforcement strains.

Study on Retrofitting and Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Fibrous Concrete

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1676-1684
Author(s):  
Natalia Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fiber ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Cement Matrix ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete

Abstract: Reinforced concrete structures are frequently in need of repair and strengthening as a result of numerous environmental causes, ageing, or material damage under intense stress conditions, as well as mistakes made during the construction process. RC structures are repaired using a variety of approaches nowadays. The usage of FRC is one of the retrofitting strategies. Steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) was used in this investigation because it contains randomly dispersed short discrete steel fibers that operate as internal reinforcement to improve the cementitious composite's characteristics (concrete). The main rationale for integrating small discrete fibers into a cement matrix is to reduce the amount of cement used. The principal reason for incorporating short discrete fibers into a cement matrix is to reduce cracking in the elastic range, increase the tensile strength and deformation capacity and increase the toughness of the resultant composite. These properties of SFRC primarily depend upon length and volume of Steel fibers used in the concrete mixture. In India, the steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) has seen limited applications in several structures due to the lack of awareness, design guidelines and construction specifications. Therefore, there is a need to develop information on the role of steel fibers in the concrete mixture. The experimental work reported in this study includes the mechanical properties of concrete at different volume fractions of steel fibers. These mechanical properties include compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength and to study the effect of volume fraction and aspect ratio of steel fibers on these mechanical properties. However, main aim of the study was significance of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with fiber reinforced concrete layer and to investigate how these beams deflect under strain. The objective of the investigation was finding that applying FRC to strengthen beams enhanced structural performance in terms of ultimate load carrying capacity, fracture pattern deflection, and mode of failure or not.

Effect of cracking localization on the structural ductility of normal strength and high strength reinforced concrete beams with steel fibers

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avraham N Dancygier ◽  
Yuri S Karinski
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Transition Point ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Reinforcement Ratio ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Flexural Ductility ◽  
Ductility Ratio ◽  
The Impact

This article presents a study of cracking localization in normal and high strength concrete beams that include steel fibers and the influence of this localization on their structural ductility. It is shown that for a given fiber type and content, as the reinforcement ratio ρ decreases, the cracking localization level increases. The effect of ρ on the level of cracking localization is more pronounced for low amounts of conventional reinforcement. This range of conventional reinforcement ratio is typical of slabs and especially for the commonly thicker protective slabs. Examination of the effect of the reinforcement ratio on the flexural ductility shows that there exists a transition point below which the ductility ratio decreases with  ρ. This transition point is well above the minimum reinforcement ratio, which is required in design codes for plain reinforced concrete elements. Empirical analysis of the relation between cracking localization and ductility ratio shows that up to the same transition point, as cracking localization increases, the flexural ductility decreases. Findings of this study show that the positive effect of adding fibers on enhancing the impact resistance of slabs and beams is conflicted by their negative influence on reducing the structural ductility for low reinforcement ratios, which are typical of protective slabs.

Does the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams and slabs depend upon the flexural reinforcement ratio or the reinforcement strain?

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1068-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitra Noghreh Khaja ◽  
Edward G. Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Reinforcement Ratio ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Shear Stresses ◽  
Shear Design ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fibre Reinforced Polymer ◽  
General Method

Beam tests are conducted to investigate the effect of the reinforcement ratio, ρ, and the shear span to depth ratio, a/d, on the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams and slabs without stirrups. The a/d ratio is shown to have a very significant effect on shear strength at both low values of a/d (where failure is governed by strut-and-tie mechanisms) and large values of a/d (where failure is governed by breakdown in beam action). Increases in ρ associated with increases in a/d such that the strain, or M/ρVd ratio, is kept constant will result in constant failure shear stresses. Shear design methods that do not account for a/d (e.g., ACI Committee 440) cannot predict the observed experimental behaviour, whereas the general method of the CSA A23.3 code can. Using the ACI 440 equation for Vc may reduce the economic competitiveness of fibre-reinforced polymer reinforcement versus steel reinforcement.

scholarly journals Abstract "MECHANICAL MODEL FOR THE SHEAR STRENGTH OF STEEL FIBERS REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS (SFRC) WITHOUT STIRRUPS"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Ricardo Marí Bernat
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strength ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Mechanical Model ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Steel Fibers ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Shear Model

Es bien conocido que la adicion de fibras de acero mejora la resistencia a cortante y ductilidad de las vigas de hormigón armado. Sin embargo, a pesar de los numerosos estudios existentes, las normativas y recomendaciones de diseño se basan en modelos empiricos que presentan mucha dispersion cuando se comparan sus resultados con los de ensayos. Ello es fundamentalmente debido a las incertidumbres asociadas al comportamiento del hormigon con fibras debido a la orientcion, ditsribucion y adherencia de las fibras  con el hormigón, entre otros factores.  Por ello, la caracterizacion del hormigon con fibras se asocia a parametros de ensayos a flexión, a pesar de que las tensiones post-fisuracion obtenidas no son directamente utilizables como tensiones transmitidas a través de la fisura crítica. Por otra parte, la mayoría de los ensayos existentes no disponen de estos parametros experimentales. Por ello se detecta la necesidad de disponer de modelos mecánicos (no empíricos) que partan de los parametros usados en el dise´ño del hormigón con fibras (tipo, geometria y cuantia de las fibras, etc) A tal fin, en esta ponencia se presenta un modelo mecánico de resistencia a cortante, obtenido extendiendo el modelo "Multi-Action Shear Model" previamente desarrollado en las universidades UPC y UIB, incorporando los efectos de las fibras , tanto a puenteando  la fisura crítica como aumentando la resistencia de la cabeza de compresión. Por otra parte, la tension residual a través de la fisura crítica se obtiene mediante una formulación desarrollada en funcion de las caracteristicas de las fibras (geometria, forma, caracteristicas de adherencia, volumen de fibras) y de la resistencia a traccion del hormigón. Los resultados del modelo, comparados con los de 488 tensayos a cortante incluidos en una reciente base de datos de vigas de hormigon con fibras, sin cercos,  han mostrado una dispersión menor que cualquiera de los modelos existentes hasta el momento, siendo por tanto muy adecuado (por sencillez y precision) para el diseño de estas estructuras.

scholarly journals Shear capacity of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with web side bonded CFRP sheets

2019 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 04010
Author(s):  
Rendy Thamrin ◽  
Zaidir ◽  
Sabril Haris
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Concrete Beams ◽  
Concrete Cover ◽  
Shear Capacity ◽  
Reinforcement Ratio ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beams ◽  
Longitudinal Reinforcement ◽  
Flexural Mode ◽  
Cfrp Sheets ◽  
Reinforced Polymer

The shear capacity of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with web side bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets was measured experimentally. Nine reinforced concrete beams without stirrups; three control beams and six beams strengthened with minimal application of web side bonded CFRP sheets, were tested. The test variables were ratio of longitudinal reinforcement (1%, 1.4%, and 2.4%) and angle of application of CFRP sheets (450 and 900). The test results show that reinforced concrete beams strengthened with web side bonded CFRP sheets have higher shear capacity compared to the control beams. Shear capacity of strengthened beams with 450 angle of application of CFRP sheets is similar to that of beams strengthened with 900 angles. Beams with 1% of longitudinal reinforcement ratio failed in flexural mode indicated by concrete crushing in compression zone while beams with higher longitudinal reinforcement ratio (1.4% and 2.4%) failed in brittle mode as indicated by delamination of the concrete cover.

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