Shear Strength Model of Reinforced Concrete Columns

철근콘크리트 기둥의 전단강도 모델

The existing design expressions for shear strength of reinforced concrete columns are lacking in consistent seismic design philosophy and very conservative. However, relatively not so many experiments have been conducted to verify the shear resisting mechanisms of columns. The previous researches concentrated on deriving an experimental model from their test results. So, there is a need to approach this problem from the analytical point of view to be balanced with the experimental effort. This paper presents a method of modeling reinforced concrete columns under seismic shear loading. Lower bound solutions are obtained by using an analogous truss model and concrete arch actions. This model agrees with the precedented test results by some margins.