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http://dx.doi.org/10.4334/JKCI.2015.27.2.185

Analysis of Flexural Behavior of Composite Beam with Steel Fiber Reinforced Ultra High Performance Concrete Deck and Inverted-T Shaped Steel with Tension Softening Behavior  

Yoo, Sung-Won (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Woosuk University)
Yang, In-Hwan (Department of Civil Engineering, Kunsan National University)
Jung, Sang-Hwa (Department of Preceding Research, Korea Conformity Laboratories)
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Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute / v.27, no.2, 2015 , pp. 185-193 More about this Journal
Abstract
Ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) has been developed to overcome the low tensile strengths and brittleness of conventional concrete. Considering that UHPC, owing to its composition and the use of steel fibers, develops a compressive strength of 180 MPa as well as high stiffness, the top flange of the steel girder may be superfluous in the composite beam combining a slab made of UHPC and the steel girder. In such composite beam, the steel girder takes the form of an inverted-T shaped structure without top flange in which the studs needed for the composition of the steel girder with the UHPC slab are disposed in the web of the steel girder. This study investigates experimentally and analytically the flexural behavior of this new type of composite beam to propose details like stud spacing and slab thickness for further design recommendations. To that goal, eight composite beams with varying stud spacing and slab thickness were fabricated and tested. The test results indicated that stud spacing running from 100 mm to 2 to 3 times the slab thickness can be recommended. In view of the relative characteristic slip limit of Eurocode-4, the results showed that the composite beam developed ductile behavior. Moreover, except for the members with thin slab and large stud spacing, most of the specimens exhibited results different to those predicted by AASHTO LRFD and Eurocode-4 because of the high performance developed by UHPC.
Keywords
composite beam; UHPC deck; inverted-T shaped steel girder; flexural behavior; tension softening;
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