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Punching performance of RC slab-column connections with inner steel truss

  • Shi, Qingxuan (School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology) ;
  • Ma, Ge (School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology) ;
  • Guo, Jiangran (School of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology) ;
  • Ma, Chenchen (State Key Laboratory of Green Building in Western China)
  • Received : 2020.04.12
  • Accepted : 2022.10.08
  • Published : 2022.09.25
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Abstract

As a brittle failure mode, punching-shear failure can be widely found in traditional RC slab-column connections, which may lead to the entire collapse of a flat plate structure. In this paper, a novel RC slab-column connection with inner steel truss was proposed to enhance the punching strength. In the proposed connection, steel trusses, each of which was composed of four steel angles and a series of steel strips, were pre-assembled at the periphery of the column capital and behaved as transverse reinforcements. With the aim of exploring the punching behavior of this novel RC slab-column connection, a static punching test was conducted on two full-scaled RC slab specimens, and the crack patterns, failure modes, load-deflection and load-strain responses were thoroughly analyzed to explore the contribution of the applied inner steel trusses to the overall punching behavior. The test results indicated that all the test specimens suffered the typical punching-shear failure, and the higher punching strength and initial stiffness could be found in the specimen with inner steel trusses. The numerical models of tested specimens were analyzed in ABAQUS. These models were verified by comparing the results of the tests with the results of the analyzes, and subsequently the sensitivity of the punching capacity to different parameters was studied. Based on the test results, a modified critical shear crack theory, which could take the contribution of the steel trusses into account, was put forward to predict the punching strength of this novel RC slab-column connection, and the calculated results agreed well with the test results.

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Acknowledgement

The experiment mentioned in this paper was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51878540). The financial support is highly appreciated.

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