Experimental investigation on shear performance of fiber-reinforced high-strength concrete dry joints

Yuan, Aimin; Zhao, Xilu; Lu, Rongwei

doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111159

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“…Recently, several famous projects of PCSBs have been built in China, such as Sutong Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing No.4 Yangtze River Bridge, Zhuhai-Macau Lotus Bridge [3], and Humen Second Bridge [4]. Although the joints between precast concrete segments are usually epoxy joints to prevent the corrosion of internal prestressing strands, dry joints are becoming popular due to their rapid construction, lower costs, and elimination of additional curing [5][6][7][8]. Dry joints located between concrete segments represent locations of discontinuity in PCSBs, which influence the overall structural behavior of PCSBs, including the ultimate flexural capacity or shear strength.…”

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Experimental Study on Shear Behavior of Precast High-Strength Concrete Segmental Beams with External Tendons and Dry Joints

Zhang

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Precast high-strength concrete segmental beams with external tendons and dry joints (ED-PHCSBs) have become a potential alternative for achieving accelerated bridge construction due to their lighter self-weight and easier installation. In order to investigate the shear behavior of ED-PHCSBs, eight precast concrete segmental specimens were fabricated and tested to failure. For comparison purposes, one externally prestressed high-strength concrete monolithic beam was also investigated. The primary parameters, including concrete strength, shear span-depth ratio, stirrup ratio, joint number, and joint location, were adopted. Test results indicated that increasing the concrete strength or stirrup ratio can effectively improve the shear capacity of the ED-PHCSBs. The shear span-depth ratio was inversely proportional to shear strength for all specimens. The results also revealed that the joint number had a marginal effect on the defections and stresses of the external tendons of ED-PHCSBs. AASHTO 2017 and Chinese code 2018 can conservatively estimate the shear strength of ED-PHCSBs. Considering the actual failure modes of the precast beams, a calculation method based on a modified strut-and-tie model was proposed. The average and standard deviation of the ratios of the test results to the predicted value of the proposed method were 0.98 and 0.08, respectively. It indicated that the proposed formula was more accurate.

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Experimental Study on Shear Behavior of Precast High-Strength Concrete Segmental Beams with External Tendons and Dry Joints

Zhang

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“…Nowadays, steel tendons constitute the most widely adopted prestressing solution in PSCBs, including internal fully bonded steel tendons, external unbonded steel tendons, and hybrid tendons [4]. Numerous studies have been performed on the flexural and shear behaviors of steel tendon prestressed PSCBs [5][6][7][8][9][10]. The internal bonded steel tendons are beneficial to improving structural load-carrying capacity and ductility, but they are vulnerable to corrosion at the joint locations [11,12].…”

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Numerical Model for Flexural Analysis of Precast Segmental Concrete Beam with Internal Unbonded CFRP Tendons

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A new construction scheme was recently developed for precast segmental concrete beams by replacing steel tendons with internal unbonded carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer tendons. The discontinuous behaviors of the opening joints and unbonded phenomenon of tendons made their flexural behaviors more complicated than those of monolithic beams and members with bonded tendons. Currently, the knowledge on the structural performance of precast segmental concrete beams with internal unbonded carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer tendons is still limited. An efficient numerical model is urgently needed for the structural analysis and performance evaluation of this new construction scheme. In this paper, a new beam–cable hybrid model was proposed accounting for the mechanical behaviors of open joints and unbonded tendons. The numerical model was implemented in the OpenSees software with the proposed modeling method for joint elements and a newly developed element class for internal unbonded tendons. The effectiveness of the proposed model was verified by comparisons against two simply supported experimental tests. Then, the numerical model was employed to evaluate the flexural performance of a full-scale bridge with a span of 37.5 m. Compared with the precast segmental concrete beam with external steel tendons, the scheme with internal unbonded carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer tendons significantly improved the flexural capacity and ductility by almost 54.6% and 8.9%, respectively. The span-to-depth ratio and prestressing reinforcement ratio were the main factors affecting the flexural behaviors. With the span-to-depth ratio increasing by 23%, the flexural capacity decreased by approximately 38.6% and the tendon stress increment decreased by approximately 15.7%. With the prestressing reinforcement ratio increasing by 65.4%, the flexural capacity increased by 88.7% and the tendon stress increment decreased by approximately 25.2%.

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Experimental Study on Shear Transfer Performance of Uncracked Monolithic Steel Fiber Concrete

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Experimental investigation on shear performance of fiber-reinforced high-strength concrete dry joints

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Experimental Study on Shear Behavior of Precast High-Strength Concrete Segmental Beams with External Tendons and Dry Joints

Experimental Study on Shear Behavior of Precast High-Strength Concrete Segmental Beams with External Tendons and Dry Joints

Numerical Model for Flexural Analysis of Precast Segmental Concrete Beam with Internal Unbonded CFRP Tendons

Experimental Study on Shear Transfer Performance of Uncracked Monolithic Steel Fiber Concrete

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