scholarly journals The Impact of the Agressive Acid Environment on RC Constructions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-229
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Blikharskyy ◽  
Roman Khmil ◽  
Zinoviy Blikharskyy ◽  
Taras Shnal

AbstractThe main issue of the article is the corrosion of the reinforced concrete elements by the co-influence of the aggressive and power factors. The problem of corrosion is ex-tremely actual one. Therefore the tests were carried out upon the specimens considering the corrosion in the acid environment, namely 10 % H2SO4. The acid environment H2SO4 was taken as a model of the aggressive environment. Conclusions concerning the corrosion model of the cross section and investigation of stress-strain state have been made. That material concerns the problem of the reinforced concrete corrosion as a whole construction. Reinforced concrete beams were tested with and without the co-action of the aggressive environment and power factor.

2018 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 02002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Selejdak ◽  
Roman Khmil ◽  
Zinoviy Blikharskyy

The article is devoted to an experimental research of the strength of reinforced concrete beams, and its dependence on a simultaneous influence of a corrosion environment and a loading factor. The tests have been carried out upon reinforced concrete specimens of 2100×200×100 mm size, with a regular reinforcement. The beams are of a span equaling to 1,9m with different reinforcing ratio of beams. The acid environment, namely 10 % H2SO4, was taken as a model of an aggressive environment. Reinforced concrete beams have been tested with and without the co-action of the aggressive environment and loading factor. Beams, which underwent a simultaneous action of the corrosive environment and loading, were loaded to a level 0.7 of its load-carrying capacity. The load-carrying capacity in aggressive environment in all the beams of all the series was achieved in 46-60 days. The influence of the simultaneous action of the aggressive environment and loading on the strength of reinforced-concrete beams has been described in the following work. It is necessary to note that the design code of Ukraine does not allow determining load carrying capacity of the beams affected by corrosion with simultaneous influence of loading with adequate accuracy. The analysis of experimental data has been done and the main directions of the design code’s correction have been formulated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
Vasyl Karpiuk ◽  
Yuliia Somina ◽  
Oksana Maistrenko ◽  
Fedir Karpiuk

AbstractThe paper deals with the working peculiarities of the support zones of reinforced concrete elements subject to bending with due account of the eccentric compression and tension. The authors performed simulation of the stress-strain behaviour of the indicated structures with the aid of “Lira” software which results are shown in the graphical and tabulated form. The performed simulation allowed of tracing the work of the studied sample beams till collapse. Such approach made it possible to single out and generalize the main collapse patterns of the inclined cross-sections of the reinforced concrete elements subject to bending on which basis the authors developed the improved method to calculate their strength (Karpiuk et al., 2019).


2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 065-070
Author(s):  
Zinoviy Blikharskyy ◽  
Dmytro Dubizhanskyy ◽  
Roman Khmil

Bearing capacity of normal cross section of bending concrete elements reinforced with reinforced concrete ring under load was investigated. Experimental researches of 4 sets of beams with the total number of 16 units were carried out. The results of changes of stress-strain state settings depending on the load level, additional reinforcement, influence of limit level load were analyzed. The three characteristic stages of stress-strain state of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with reinforced concrete ring were defined. Results of experimental investigations of bearing capacity of normal cross section of strengthened beams with reinforced concrete ring under load were presented. Enhancing effect was calculated. According to the results of researches of strengthened beams plots of strain of working armature depending on current bending moment were constructed.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Beskopylny ◽  
Besarion Meskhi ◽  
Elena Kadomtseva ◽  
Grigory Strelnikov

This article is devoted to the stress–strain state (SSS) study of metal and reinforced fiber-reinforced concrete beam under static and shock loading, depending on the bimodularity of the material, the mass of the beam, and the location of the reinforcing bars in zones under tension and compression. It is known that many materials have different tensile and compression properties, but in most cases, this is not taken into account. The calculations were carried out by using load-bearing metal beams made of silumin and steel and reinforced concrete beams under the action of a concentrated force applied in the middle of the span. The impact load is considered as the plastic action of an absolutely rigid body on the elastic system, taking into account the hypothesis of proportionality of the dynamic and static characteristics of the stress–strain state of the body. The dependences of the maximum dynamic normal stresses on the number of locations of reinforcing bars in zones under tension and compression, the bimodularity of the material, and the reduced mass of the beam are obtained. A numerical study of SSS for metal and concrete beams has shown that bimodularity allows the prediction of beam deflections and normal stresses more accurately.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
M. Bekirova ◽  

Problems associated with the joint long-term action of load and aggressive environment, both in limiting and over-limiting states, are studied bad. Such a combination leads to degradation of materials and changes in the stress-strain state of reinforced concrete structures over time. In case of joint action, they can have mutually increasing damaging effect. Among the many environmental influences encountered, the most aggressive in relation to concrete on cement binder is the impact of sulfates, and in relation to steel reinforcement – the impact of chlorides. It is shown that the stress-strain state of reinforced concrete compressed elements with regard to creep and influence of aggressive environment is formed in time. The deformation in concrete and reinforced concrete compressed elements depends on the stress level. If the stresses are less than the long-term strength, the deformations in time are attenuated, when the stresses in concrete are greater than the long-term strength, the deformations increase. Reinforcement restrains deformations in concrete, while corrosive medium increases creep deformations. When solving these problems we encounter internally statically indeterminate systems. The degree of static indeterminacy is greater than in the case of calculation of reinforced concrete structures without taking into account the influence of the external environment. When the process of soaking is considered, it is possible to consider the influence of the external environment as not aggressive. A solution to the problem using the theory of elastic heredity has been obtained, but it can be shown that a solution using other theories - the theory of aging or the hereditary theory of aging - is also possible. The above solution is true for reinforced concrete elements exposed to external influences at a sufficiently mature age, which can be considered one year or more from the date of manufacture of the structure.


2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Kaczmarek ◽  
Agnieszka Szymańska

Abstract Nonlinear structural mechanics should be taken into account in the practical design of reinforced concrete structures. Cracking is one of the major sources of nonlinearity. Description of deflection of reinforced concrete elements is a computational problem, mainly because of the difficulties in modelling the nonlinear stress-strain relationship of concrete and steel. In design practise, in accordance with technical rules (e.g., Eurocode 2), a simplified approach for reinforced concrete is used, but the results of simplified calculations differ from the results of experimental studies. Artificial neural network is a versatile modelling tool capable of making predictions of values that are difficult to obtain in numerical analysis. This paper describes the creation and operation of a neural network for making predictions of deflections of reinforced concrete beams at different load levels. In order to obtain a database of results, that is necessary for training and testing the neural network, a research on measurement of deflections in reinforced concrete beams was conducted by the authors in the Certified Research Laboratory of the Building Engineering Institute at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. The use of artificial neural networks is an innovation and an alternative to traditional methods of solving the problem of calculating the deflections of reinforced concrete elements. The results show the effectiveness of using artificial neural network for predicting the deflection of reinforced concrete beams, compared with the results of calculations conducted in accordance with Eurocode 2. The neural network model presented in this paper can acquire new data and be used for further analysis, with availability of more research results.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chunyu Fu ◽  
Dawei Tong ◽  
Yuyang Wang

Concrete cracking causes a gradual change in strain distributions along the cross section height of reinforced concrete beams, which will finally affect their instantaneous stiffness. A method for assessing the stiffness is proposed based on the gradual change, which is considered through modeling different strain distributions for key sections in cracked regions. Internal force equilibria are adopted to find a solution to top strains and neutral axes in the models, and then the inertias of the key sections are calculated to assess the beam stiffness. The proposed method has been validated using experimental results obtained from tests on five reinforced concrete beams. The predicted stiffness and displacements are shown to provide a good agreement with experimental data. The instantaneous stiffness is proven to greatly depend on the crack number and depth. This dependence can be exactly reflected by the proposed method through simulating the gradual change in concrete strain distributions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avraham N Dancygier ◽  
Yuri S Karinski

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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1290-1304
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Ze-Yang Sun ◽  
Gang Wu ◽  
Da-Fu Cao ◽  
Zhi-Qin Zhang

This study presents a design method for hybrid fiber-reinforced-polymer-steel-reinforced concrete beams by an optimized analysis of the cross section. First, the relationships among the energy consumption, the bearing capacity, and the reinforcement ratio are analyzed; then, the parameters of the cross section are determined. Comparisons between the available theoretical and experimental results show that the designed hybrid fiber-reinforced-polymer-steel-reinforced concrete beams with a low area ratio between the fiber-reinforced polymer and the steel reinforcement could meet the required carrying capacity and exhibited high ductility.


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