Development of Filler Type Mechanical Splice for High Strength Re-bar

고강도 철근용 충전형 기계적 이음장치 개발 연구

Abstract

Various types of re-bar splicing methods have been developed and applied to reinforced concrete (RC) structures in the field. According to previous studies, the coupler splice is relatively superior to the lap splice in terms of cost efficiency when the diameter or strength of the re-bar is larger or higher. This study was performed to develop a filler type mechanical splice for a high-strength re-bar (SD600) in reinforced concrete structures. The deformed re-bars were inserted into a circular steel tube coupler and high-strength epoxy filler was then injected into the coupler. The splice system was completed by hardened filler in a coupler. The epoxy filler was used as the manufactured production epoxy to conduct experiments of filler type mechanical splice specimens, and to observe the failure loads and failure aspects of the specimens. For this goal, the experiment of one-way tensile test was conducted for the epoxy filler type mechanical splices specimens according to the compressive strength of epoxy, length of coupler, and diameter of re-bar. The shape of failure of the re-bar coupler splice showed that the re-bars were pulled between the lugs of the re-bars as a result of the shear fracture of the hardened epoxy. The actual failure load of the experiment specimen was approximately 2 times higher than the expected failure load of the epoxy filler, which greatly improves the failure load of the hardening epoxy filler due to the restraint of the steel coupler.

철근 콘크리트 구조물에 다양한 종류의 철근 이음 방법이 개발되고 이를 현장에서 적용하여 왔다. 지난 여러 연구들에 따르면 철근의 직경이 굵어지고 철근의 강도가 커질 경우, 원가 효율 면에서 기계적 이음이 겹침이음보다 상대적으로 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서는 철근 콘크리트 구조물의 고강도 철근(SD600)에 대한 에폭시 충전형 기계적 이음장치를 제시하고 실험을 실시하였다. 이형 철근을 원형 튜브형 강재로 된 커플러에 삽입하고 고강도 에폭시 충전재를 커플러 안으로 주입하면 커플러 안에서 충전재가 경화되면서 이음 장치가 구성된다. 에폭시의 압축강도, 커플러의 길이, 철근의 지름 등에 따른 에폭시 충전형 기계적 이음장치에 대한 일방향 인장시험을 수행하였으며, 실험체의 파괴하중 및 파괴 양상을 관찰하였다. 실험 결과, 실험체의 실제 파괴하중은 에폭시 충전재의 예상 파단 내력의 약 2배 이상으로 나타나 강재 커플러의 구속으로 인하여 경화 에폭시 충전재의 파괴하중이 크게 증가했다는 것을 확인하였다.

Fig. 1. Filler type mechanical splice mechanism (a) Filler type mechanical splice mechanism (b) Shear resistance

Fig. 2. Specification of Couplers

Fig. 3. Specimen of Couplers

Fig. 4. Epoxy filler

Fig. 5. Rubber Tube

Fig. 6. UTM and Specimen of Mechanical Splice

Fig. 7. Comparison of failure loads

Fig. 8. Failure of filler type mechanical splice (a) Specimen No. 1(C142-1.5-26) (b) Total specimen

Table 1. Type of re-bar splices

Table 2. Re-bar(SD400*) cost for lap splice

Table 3. Re-bar(SD500*) cost for lap splice

Table 4. Re-bar(SD600*) cost for lap splice

Table 5. Specification of couplers

Table 6. Specification of epoxy filler

Table 7. Result of experiments

Table 8. Coupler Length and Expected Compressive Strength of Epoxy