• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.7-15
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• 2007

A mechanical model was developed to predict the behavior of point-loaded RC slender beams (a/d > 2.5) without stirrups. It is commonly accepted by most researchers that a diagonal tension crack plays a predominant role in the failure mode of these beams, but the failure mechanism of these members is still debatable. In this paper, it was assumed that diagonal tension failure was triggered by the concrete cover splitting due to the dowel action at the initial location of diagonal tension cracks, which propagate from flexural cracks. When concrete cover splitting occurred, the shape of a diagonal tension crack was simultaneously developed, which can be determined from the principal tensile stress trajectory. This fictitious crack rotates onto the crack tip with load increase. During the rotation, all forces acting on the crack (i.e, dowel force of longitudinal bars, vertical component of concrete tensile force, shear force by aggregate interlock, shear force in compression zone) were calculated by considering the kinematical conditions such as crack width or sliding. These forces except for the shear force in the compression zone were uncoupled with respect to crack width and sliding by the proposed constitutive relations for friction along the crack. Uncoupling the shear forces along the crack was aimed at distinguishing each force from the total shear force and clarifying the failure mechanism of RC slender beams without stirrups. In addition, a proposed method deriving the dowel force of longitudinal bars made it possible to predict the secondary shear failure. The proposed model can be used to predict not only the entire behavior of point-loaded RC slender shear beams, but also the ultimate shear strength. The experiments used to validate the proposed model are reported in a companion paper.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.131-143
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• 2023

The CFRP bar was used to achieve more ductile and durable headed-stud shear connectors in composite components. Three series of push-out tests were firstly conducted, including specimens reinforced with pure steel fibers, steel and CFRP bars. The distributed stress was measured by the commercial PPP-BOTDA (Pre-Pump-Pulse Brillouin optical time domain analysis) optical fiber sensor with high spatial resolution. A series of numerical analyses using non-linear FE models were also made to study the shear force transfer mechanism and crack response based on the test results. Test results show that the CFRP bar increases the shear strength and stiffness of the large diameter headed-stud shear connection, and it has equivalent reinforcing effects on the stud shear capacity as the commonly used steel bar. The embedded CFRP bar can also largely improve the shear force transfer mechanism and decrease the tensile stress in the transverse direction. The parametric study shows that low content steel fibers could delay the crack initiation of slab around the large diameter stud, and the CFRP bar with normal elastic modulus and the standard reinforcement ratio has good resistance to splitting crack growth in headed stud shear connectors.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제3권2_3호
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• pp.91-102
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• 2006

To place concrete overlays has become a standard application in the strengthening and rehabilitation of concrete structures such as bridges, tunnels, parking decks and industrial buildings. In general, connectors are used to ensure a monolithic behavior of the two concrete layers. Within the framework of the development of a new connector wedge splitting tests and shear tests were performed, in addition nonlinear finite element analyses were applied to investigate the load transfer behavior of the connectors for different prototypes. The numerical simulation results were compared to experimental data. The computed load-displacement curve demonstrates good correspondence with the curves obtained in the experiments, and the experimental crack patterns are reasonably simulated by the computed crack propagation. Both numerical and experimental investigations on the wedge splitting test and on the shear test served as basis for the development of new type of connectors.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.116-124
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• 2002

Natural resources fur the construction materials such as good soil, sand, and coarse aggregates have been encountered to be short due to excessive use by human. Even though some soil has been found to be unsuitable for construction materials, soil with reinforcement can naturally be an answer to these alternatives. According to recently published papers on fiber mixed soil, fiber mixed with soil can improve shear strength, compressive strength and post-peak load strength retention. In this study, a series of tests were performed to clarify the characteristics of fiber mixed soil and to give basic data for design and construction and their engineering properties, that is, unconfined compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, shear strength, crack by drying, freeze-thaw, creep and Poisson\`s ratio, were investigated and analyzed. It has been shown that fiber mixed soil is one of good alternatives fur the civil and building construction materials.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제72권1호
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• pp.19-30
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• 2019

The mechanical behavior of Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites (FRCC) under direct shear is studied through experiment and analytical simulation. The cementitious composite considered contains 55% replacement of cement with fly ash and 2% (volume ratio) of short discontinuous synthetic fibers (in the form of mass reinforcement, comprising PVA - Polyvinyl Alcohol fibers). This class of cementitious materials exhibits ductility under tension with the formation of multiple fine cracks and significant delay of crack stabilization (i.e., localization of cracking at a single location). One of the behavioral parameters that concern structural design is the shear strength of this new type of fiber reinforced composites. This aspect was studied in the present work with the use of Push-off tests. The shear strength is then compared to the materials' tensile and splitting strength values.

• KCI Concrete Journal
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.57-68
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• 2000

The effect of structure size on the nominal strength of unidirectional fiber-polymer composites, failing by propagation of a kink band with fiber microbuckling, is analyzed experimentally and theoretically. Tests of novel geometrically similar carbon-PEEK specimens, with notches slanted so as to lead to a pure kink band (without shear or splitting cracks), are conducted. The specimens are rectangular strips of widths 15.875, 31.75. and 63.5 mm (0.625, 1.25 and 2.5 in and gage lengths 39.7, 79.375 and 158.75 mm (1.563, 3.125 and 6.25 in.). They reveal the existence of a strong (deterministic. non-statistical) size effect. The doubly logarithmic plot of the nominal strength (load divided by size and thickness) versus the characteristic size agrees with the approximate size effect law proposed for quasibrittle failures in 1983 by Bazant This law represents a gradual transition from a horizontal asymptote, representing the case of no size effect (characteristic of plasticity or strength criteria), to an asymptote of slope -1/2 (characteristic of linear elastic fracture mechanics. LEFM) . The size effect law for notched specimens permits easy identification of the fracture energy of the kink bandand the length of the fracture process zone at the front of the band solely from the measurements of maximum loads. Optimum fits of the test results by the size effect law are obtained, and the size effect law parameters are then used to identify the material fracture characteristics, Particularly the fracture energy and the effective length of the fracture process zone. The results suggest that composite size effect must be considered in strengthening existing concrete structural members such as bridge columns and beams using a composite retrofitting technique.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.400-412
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• 2013

CFT 구조는 내부의 콘크리트와 강관의 합성거동을 위한 전단연결재를 필요로 한다. 하지만, 현행 설계기준에서는 통상적으로 무근콘크리트로 채워지는 CFT 구조에 적용할 수 있는 전단연결재에 대한 설계기준을 제시하고 있지 않다. 본 연구는 강-콘크리트 합성구조에 널리 사용되는 스터드 전단연결재를 CFT 구조에 적용하기 위한 설계기준 즉, CFT 구조에 적용된 스터드 전단연결재의 전단강도를 제안하기 위한 연구의 일환으로 수행되었다. 본 연구에서는 CFT 구조에 적용된 스터드의 전단강도를 결정하는 주된 파괴모드를 검토하기 위하여 무근콘크리트를 적용한 직접전단실험체를 이용하여 실험을 수행하고 파괴모드를 분석하기 위한 유한요소해석을 실시하였다. 직접전단실험 및 유한요소해석결과로부터 CFT 구조에 적용된 스터드 전단연결재의 주된 파괴모드는 콘크리트의 쪼갬파괴이며, 이러한 파괴모드로 인하여 철근콘크리트에 적용된 스터드에 비해 전단강도가 감소한다는 사실을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2003

날개크랙과 이차크랙은 암석의 일축압축 및 이축압축 조건에서 관측되는 특정한 형태의 크랙이다. 본 연구에서는 석고로 제작된 실험체내에 발생하는 날개크랙과 이차크랙의 형태적 측면을 미시적 및 거시적 관점에서 관측하였다. 날개크랙의 진행방향을 따라 미소인장크랙이 관측되었으며 미소인장크랙은 공극간의 연결과 분지현상을 통하여 진전되었다. 날개크랙의 개시점에서 다중의 미소인장크랙의 개시가 관측되었으며 미소인장크랙은 굴곡진 진행을 보인다. 또한 이차크랙과는 달리 미소인장크랙은 상대적으로 일정한 크랙의 틈을 보이며 인장에 의한 할렬파괴에 의해 진행되는 것으로 나타났다. 이차크랙의 미시적 관측에서는 미소파쇄대가 관측되었다. 이차크랙의 파괴구간 내에서는 입자 및 집괴의 분리, 경사진 미소파쇄대의 형성 및 불규칙한 크기의 틈을 가진 미소파쇄대가 관측되었다. 이러한 결과는 이차크랙이 전단에 의해 형성됨을 보이고 있다 날개크랙과 이차크랙은 서로 다른 크기의 파괴진행구간을 보이고 있으며 각각의 크랙의 진행 방향에 직각방향으로 측정된 파괴진행구간의 폭은 날개크랙의 경우 10$\mu{m}$에서 20$\mu{m}$ 정도이며 이차크랙은 100$\mu{m}$에서 200$\mu{m}$ 정도이다.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.3-8
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• 2008

Polymer-cement composites are known repair materials. The aim of this work is to investigate the influence of various amount of dispersion of carboxylated styrene-butadience copolymer on the selected mechanical properties of polymer-cement concrete (PCC) and on its adhesion to ordinary concrete. The compressive, flexural and tensile strengths as well as frost resistance and fracture resistance of the composites are tested. Adhesion strength of PCC to ordinary concrete, as one of most important performance of good repair material is evaluated and analyzed using three test methods. The results obtained in standard pull-off test are compared with the two other tests. The first one, which is an adaptation of WST (wedge splitting test) characterizes crack propagation in the plane of bond created during repair. In the second test the resistance to shear is a measure of adhesion strength.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제77권2호
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• pp.273-291
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• 2021

The strut-and-tie method (STM) has been widely accepted and used as a rational approach for the design of disturbed regions ('D' regions) of reinforced concrete members such as in corbels and deep beams, where traditional flexure theory does not apply. This paper evaluates the applicability of the equilibrium based STM in strength predictions of deep beams (with rectangular and circular cross-section) and corbels using the available experiments in literature. STM is found to give fairly good results for corbel and deep beams. The failure modes of these deep members are also studied, and an optimum amount of distribution reinforcement is suggested to eliminate the premature diagonal splitting failure. A comparison with existing empirical and semi empirical methods also show that STM gives more reliable results. The nonlinear finite element analysis (NLFEA) of 50 deep beams and 20 corbels could capture the complete behaviour of deep members including crack pattern, failure load and failure load accurately.