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

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.

Author(s):  
Aaron Kadima Lukanu Lwa Nzambi ◽  
Dênio Ramam Carvalho de Oliveira ◽  
Marcus Vinicius dos Santos Monteiro ◽  
Luiz Felipe Albuquerque da Silva

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.


Structures ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 1015-1025
Author(s):  
Ahmad Tarawneh ◽  
Ghassan Almasabha ◽  
Roaa Alawadi ◽  
Mohammad Tarawneh

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 1501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Ammar Hameed ◽  
Mohannad Husain Al-Sherrawi

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5A) ◽  
pp. 669-680
Author(s):  
Ghazwan K. Mohammed ◽  
Kaiss F. Sarsam ◽  
Ikbal N. Gorgis

The study deals with the effect of using Slurry infiltrated fiber concrete (SIFCON) with the reinforced concrete beams to explore its enhancement to the flexural capacity. The experimental work consists of the casting of six beams, two beams were fully cast by conventional concrete (CC) and SIFCON, as references. While the remaining was made by contributing a layer of SIFCON diverse in-depth and position, towards complete the overall depths of the built-up beam with conventional concrete CC. Also, an investigation was done through the control specimens testing about the mechanical properties of SIFCON. The results showed a stiffer behavior with a significant increase in load-carrying capacity when SIFCON used in tension zones. Otherwise high ductility and energy dissipation appeared when SIFCON placed in compression zones with a slight increment in ultimate load. The high volumetric ratio of steel fibers enabled SIFCON to magnificent tensile properties.


2021 ◽  
Vol 230 ◽  
pp. 111705
Author(s):  
Yuxing Yang ◽  
Amit H. Varma ◽  
Michael E. Kreger ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Kai Zhang

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