Shear strength of fibre-reinforced polymer reinforced concrete deep beams without web reinforcement

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 546-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed K. El-Sayed ◽  
Ehab F. El-Salakawy ◽  
Brahim Benmokrane
2018 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 04015
Author(s):  
Nabeel Al-Bayati ◽  
Bassman Muhammad ◽  
Murooj Faek

This paper shows the behavior of reinforced self-compacting concrete deep beams with circular openings strengthened in shear with various arrangements of externally bonded Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP). Six simply supported deep beams were constructed and tested under two points load up to the failure for this purpose. All tested beams had same geometry, compressive strength, shear span to depth ratio, main flexural and web reinforcement. The variables considered in this study include the influence of fiber orientation, utilizing longitudinal CFRP strips with vertical strips and area of CFRP. The test results indicated that the presence of the circular openings in center of load path reduce stiffness and ultimate strength by about 50% when compared with solid one, also it was found that the externally bonded CFRP can significantly increase the ultimate load and enhance the stiffness of deep beam with openings.


2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1068-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitra Noghreh Khaja ◽  
Edward G. Sherwood

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.


2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Omeman ◽  
M. Nehdi ◽  
H. El-Chabib

Recent literature emphasized the scarcity of information on the shear behavior of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforced concrete short beams and the need to develop sufficient experimental data in this area. The present study responds to this need by conducting shear force testing on eight concrete short beams reinforced with carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) and four control concrete beams reinforced with steel. To ensure a shear failure, all tested beams were reinforced with only bottom longitudinal reinforcement and no web reinforcement was provided. The crack pattern, reinforcement strain, mode of failure, and shear strength and deflection of tested beams were studied. The influence of the shear span to effective depth ratio, a/d, beam effective depth, d, longitudinal reinforcement ratio, ρ, and concrete compressive strength, f ′c on the shear behavior of CFRP-reinforced concrete short beams was examined. It was observed that the experimental parameters investigated had a significant effect on the shear strength and deflection of tested beams. It was also found that the strut-and-tie method more accurately predicts the shear strength of steel-reinforced concrete short beams than it does for similar CFRP-reinforced beams and, thus, needs to be modified to be applicable for reinforced concrete beams with FRP reinforcement.


2021 ◽  
pp. 136943322110015
Author(s):  
Akram S. Mahmoud ◽  
Ziadoon M. Ali

When glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bar splices are used in reinforced concrete sections, they affect the structural performance in two different ways: through the stress concentration in the section, and through the configuration of the GFRP–concrete bond. This study experimentally investigated a new method for increasing the bond strength of a GFRP lap (two GFRP bars connected together) using a carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheet coated in epoxy resin. A new splicing method was investigated to quantify the effect of the bar surface bond on the development length, with reinforced concrete beams cast with laps in the concrete reinforcing bars at a known bending span length. Specimens were tested in four-point flexure tests to assess the strength capacity and failure mode. The results were summarised and compared within a standard lap made according to the ACI 318 specifications. The new method for splicing was more efficient for GFRP splice laps than the standard lap method. It could also be used for head-to-head reinforcement bar splices with the appropriate CFRP lapping sheets.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2736
Author(s):  
Min Sook Kim ◽  
Young Hak Lee

In this study, the structural behavior of reinforced concrete flat plates shear reinforced with vertical grids made of a glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) was experimentally evaluated. To examine the shear strength, experiments were performed on nine concrete slabs with different amounts and spacings of shear reinforcement. The test results indicated that the shear strength increased as the amount of shear reinforcement increased and as the spacing of the shear reinforcement decreased. The GFRP shear reinforcement changed the cracks and failure mode of the specimens from a brittle punching to flexure one. In addition, the experimental results are compared with a shear strength equation provided by different concrete design codes. This comparison demonstrates that all of the equations underestimate the shear strength of reinforced concrete flat plates shear reinforced with GFRP vertical grids. The shear strength of the equation by BS 8110 is able to calculate the punching shear strength reasonably for a concrete flat plate shear reinforced with GFRP vertical grids.


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