scholarly journals High Strength Concrete Beams Reinforced with Hooked Steel Fibers under Pure Torsion

2022 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Haleem K. Hussain ◽  
Mustafa Shareef Zewair ◽  
Mazin Abdulimam Ahmed

A study of the behavior of fibers in high-strength reinforced concrete beams is presented in this paper. Twelve reinforced concrete beams were tested under a pure torsion load. Different compressive strengths (45.2, 64.7, and 84.8 MPa) and fiber volume fractions (0, 0.25, 0.5, and 0.75) with variable spacing between transverse reinforcements have been used. It was discovered that the maximum torque of a high-strength concrete beam is increased by about 20.3, 25.6, and 27.1% when the fractional volume of fiber is increased from 0 to 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75 respectively (when the compressive strength is 45.2 MPa and the transverse reinforcement spacing is 100 mm). The test results show that the ultimate torsional strength becomes higher when the concrete compressive strength increases, and this percentage increase becomes higher with increasing steel fiber volume fraction. When the spacing between transverse reinforcements decreases from 150 to 100 mm, the ultimate torque increases by 19.9%. When the spacing between transverse reinforcements decreases from 100 to 60 mm, the ultimate torque increases by 17.0%. In these beams, the fibers’ compressive strength and volume fraction were kept constant at 45.2 MPa and 0.75, respectively. Doi: 10.28991/CEJ-2022-08-01-07 Full Text: PDF

2018 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 03007
Author(s):  
CL Oh ◽  
SW Lee ◽  
MZ Mohd Raizamzamani ◽  
AR Azerai ◽  
Y Norrul Azmi

Development of high strength concrete as a new ecological construction material to sustain the gradually expanding construction industry has arisen. This paper presents nonlinear finite element analysis of three-dimensional high strength reinforced concrete beams using ABAQUS. The uniaxial compressive strength for the beam models were taken from the existing experimatal data on high strength concrete cubes. Eurocode 2 was also used to establish material parameters for the constitutive models for concrete and reinforcing bars. In this study, two 150mm x 200mm x 1200mm simply supported rectangular concrete beam models subjected to loads at different shear span to effective depth ratios (a/d = 1.0 and 2.0) were analysed. Numerical results were validated with the existing experimental data specifically on the load-deflection responses and von mises stresses. It was found that the finite element results show greater than 70% agreement with the experimental results.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 831-844
Author(s):  
Fiany Fajar Puspita ◽  
Teuku Budi Aulia ◽  
Mochammad Afifuddin

Abstract: High Strength Concrete is an alternative construction material for supporting heavy loads. High strength concrete is a brittle material that susceptible to crack. One of the concrete repairing method is epoxy injection. The aim of this study is to determine the flexural behavior of high strength reinforced concrete beams after cracking and repaired with the Epoxy Injection. This study used 4 (four) high strength reinforced concrete beams (BBMT) with (15 ´ 30 ´ 220) cm dimention. One of the beam is for comparison (BBMT Normal) and 3 (three) other beams were tested at the age 7 days (BBMT E-7), 14 days (BBMT E-14) and 28 days (BBMT E-28) after repaired. The beams is designed to have flexural failure by using a compression reinforcement and shear reinforcement of 11.9 mm and 15.8 mm for tensile reinforcement. The water cement ratio for mix design is 0,25 obtained at 28 days is 66,62 MPa. The results shows that all the beams have flexural failure in agreement to the early design. The ultimate load of BBMT Normal is 17,65 ton with deflection equal to 10,36 mm. Based on theoretical calculation the load is 16.04 tons and deflection 14.38 mm. BBMT E-7 after epoxy injection ultimate load is 20,89 tons and deflection is 41.99 mm. BBMT E-14 ultimate load 21,79 tons and deflection equal to 44,27 mm. The ultimate load of BBMT E-28 is 25.52 tons and deflection 13.49 tons. The increase of load are 18.36%, 23.46% and 44.59% when compared with BBMT Normal. Based on the observation on the BBMT after epoxy injection, no cracks evident in most of the injected areas, new cracks appearing around the area of initial crack. It is concluded that epoxy injection is capable to increase the capacity of repaired high strength concrete and th flexural strength of the epoxy repaired concrete beams is increase as the age increased. Abstrak: Beton mutu tinggi merupakan salah satu alternatif material konstruksi untuk pembebanan besar. Beton mutu tinggi memiliki sifat yang kaku sehingga rentan terhadap retak. Salah satu metode perbaikan pada retak beton yaitu injeksi epoxy. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk mengamati perilaku lentur pada balok beton bertulang mutu tinggi yang diperbaiki dengan injeksi epoxy. Penelitian ini menggunakan 4 (empat) buah benda uji yaitu balok Beton Bertulang Mutu Tinggi (BBMT) dengan ukuran (15 ´ 30 ´ 220) cm. Benda uji pertama sebagai pembanding (BBMT Normal) dan 3 (tiga) benda uji lain diuji sesuai dengan umur perbaikan betonnya yaitu BBMT E-7 (7 hari), BBMT E-14 (14 hari) dan BBMT E-28 (28 hari). Balok didesain mengalami gagal lentur dengan menggunakan tulangan tekan dan tulangan geser berdiameter 11,9 mm ulir serta tulangan tarik 15,8 mm ulir. Kuat tekan beton mutu tinggi yang didapat dari benda uji kontrol kubus sebesar 66,62 MPa dengan FAS 0,25. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa semua benda uji balok mengalami gagal lentur sesuai dengan desain awal. Beban maksimum yang mampu dicapai oleh balok BBMT Normal adalah 17,65 ton dengan lendutan sebesar 10,36 mm. Perhitungan teoritis beban BBMT Normal yaitu 16,04 ton dan lendutan 14,38 mm. BBMT E-7 setelah diinjeksi menghasilkan beban sebesar 20,89 ton dan lendutan 41,99 mm. Pada BBMT E-14 beban yang dicapai 21,79 ton dan lendutan sebesar 44,27 mm. Beban maksimum pada BBMT E-28 yaitu 25,52 ton dan lendutan 13,49 ton. Masing-masing persentase peningkatan beban jika dibandingkan dengan BBMT Normal adalah 18,36%, 23,46% dan 44,59%. Pola retak yang terjadi pada balok BBMT setelah diinjeksi menunjukkan bahwa tidak terjadi retak pada sebagian besar daerah yang diinjeksi, retak baru muncul di sekitar retak awal. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa injeksi epoxy mampu meningkatkan kapasitas beton mutu tinggi dan umur perbaikan beton mempengaruhi nilai beban maksimum yang mampu dicapai oleh beton.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Bernardo ◽  
Sérgio Lopes ◽  
Mafalda Teixeira

This article describes an experimental program developed to study the influence of longitudinal prestress on the behaviour of high-strength concrete hollow beams under pure torsion. The pre-cracking, the post-cracking and the ultimate behaviour are analysed. Three tests were carried out on large hollow high-strength concrete beams with similar concrete strength. The variable studied was the level of longitudinal uniform prestress. Some important conclusions on different aspects of the beams’ behaviour are presented. These conclusions, considered important for the design of box bridges, include the influence of the level of prestress in the cracking and ultimate behaviour.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1160 ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Naglaa Glal-Eldin Fahmy ◽  
Rasha El-Mashery ◽  
Rabiee Ali Sadeek ◽  
L.M. Abd El-Hafaz

High strength concrete (HSC) characterized by high compressive strength but lower ductility compared to normal strength concrete. This low ductility limits the benefit of using HSC in building safe structures. Nanomaterials have gained increased attention because of their improvement of mechanical properties of concrete. In this paper we present an experimental study of the flexural behavior of reinforced beams composed of high-strength concrete and nanomaterials. Eight simply supported rectangular beams were fabricated with identical geometries and reinforcements, and then tested under two third-point loads. The study investigated the concrete compressive strength (50 and 75 N/mm2) as a function of the type of nanomaterial (nanosilica, nanotitanium and nanosilica/nanotitanium hybrid) and the nanomaterial concentration (0%, 0.5% and 1.0%). The experimental results showed that nano particles can be very effective in improving compressive and tensile strength of HSC, nanotitanium is more effective than nanosilica in compressive strength. Also, binary usage of hybrid mixture (nanosilica + nanotitanium) had a remarkable improvement appearing in compressive and tensile strength than using the same percentage of single type of nanomaterials used separately. The reduction in flexural ductility due to the use of higher strength concrete can be compensated by adding nanomaterials. The percentage of concentration, concrete grade and the type of nanomaterials, could predominantly affect the flexural behavior of HSRC beams.


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