• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제57권5호
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• pp.937-949
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• 2016

Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) applications in the structural engineering field include concrete-FRP composite systems, where FRP components are either attached to or embedded into concrete structures to improve their structural performance. This paper presents the results of an analytical study conducted using finite element model (FEM) to simulate the behavior of three-points load beam reinforced with GFRP and/or steel bars. To calibrate the FEM, a small-scale experimental program was carried out using six reinforced concrete beams with $200{\times}200mm$ cross section and 1000 mm length cast and tested under three point bending load. The six beams were divided into three groups, each group contained two beams. The first group was a reference beams which was cast without any reinforcement, the second group concrete beams was reinforced using GFRP, and the third group concrete beams was reinforced with steel bars. Nonlinear finite element simulations were executed using ANSYS software package. The difference between the theoretical and experimental results of beams vertical deflection and beams crack shapes were within acceptable degree of accuracy. Parametric study using the calibrated model was carried out to evaluate two parameters (1) effect of number and position of longitudinal main bars on beam behavior; (2) performance of concrete beam with composite longitudinal reinforcement steel and GFRP bars.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.121-136
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• 2024

In recent times, there has been a growing need to retrofit and strengthen reinforced concrete (RC) structures that have been damaged. Numerous studies have explored various methods for strengthening RC beams. However, there is a significant dearth of research investigating the utilization of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) for retrofitting damaged RC beams within a concrete frame. This study aims to develop a finite element (FE) model capable of accurately simulating the nonlinear behavior of RC beams and subsequently implementing it in an RC concrete frame. The RC frame is subjected to loading until failure at two distinct degrees, followed by retrofitting and strengthening using Ultra high performance shotcrete (UHPS) through two different methods. The results indicate the successful simulation of the load-displacement curve and crack patterns by the FE model, aligning well with experimental observations. Novel techniques for reinforcing deteriorated concrete frame structures through ABAQUS are introduced. The second strengthening method notably improves both the load-carrying capacity and initial stiffness of the load-displacement curve. By incorporating embedded rebars in the frame's columns, the beam's load-carrying capacity is enhanced by up to 31% compared to cases without embedding. These findings indicate the potential for improving the design of strengthening methods for damaged RC beams and utilizing the FE model to predict the strengthening capacity of UHPS for damaged concrete structures.

• Composites Research
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.15-24
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• 2004

유리 섬유 강화 플라스틱 직교적층판의 내부층과 표피층의 길이방향 변형률을 삽입된 절대변형 외부 페브리 페로 간섭 센서를 이용하여 측정하였다. 투과식 광학현미경을 이용하여 삽입된 A-EFPI 센서 주위의 파손거동을 관찰하였다. 시험편 표면부의 변형률 측정을 위해 포일 형식의 스트레인 게이지를 시험편 아래 위 표면부에 부착하였다. 또한 삽입된 A-EFPI 센서로 측정한 내부층과 표피층의 길이방향 변형률 값은 스트레인 게이지로 측정한 시험편 표면의 변형률 값 보다 다소 크게 나타났다. 균일 응력 모델을 기초로 한 3차원 유한요소해석을 통해 실험 결과의 타당성을 확인하였으며 내부층의 큰 변형률은 많은 횡단형 균열의 발생을 야기시켰는데 이로 인해 내부층에 삽입된 광섬유센서의 고장시 변형률이 급격히 낮아졌다.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.270-280
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• 2014

이 연구에서는 연속철근 콘크리트궤도에서의 균열의 원인과 균열 발생에 미치는 주요 영향인자를 파악해 보고자 경부고속철도 콘크리트궤도 구간에서 균열 발생 현황과 발생 패턴을 조사하고, 연속철근 콘크리트궤도의 구조를 감안한 2차원 비선형 유한요소해석모델을 이용하여 슬래브 상부와 기층 하부의 온도차와 콘크리트 수축에 의한 연속철근 콘크리트궤도(CRCT)에서의 균열 발생 패턴을 예측하였다. 연구 결과에 따르면 온도차와 콘크리트 건조수축에 의해 침목과 슬래브(TCL) 경계부 및 침목하부에서 균열이 발달할 것으로 예상되고, 이는 현장 조사에서 발생한 균열의 발생 위치와 일치한다. 또한 온도차에 대해서는 열팽창계수가, 콘크리트 수축에 대해서는 건조수축 변형율이 상대적으로 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났고, 침목이 TCL에 매립되어 있어서 균열 간격이 반드시 철근비에 비례하지 않을 수 있으므로 이러한 CRCT의 구조적 특성을 감안하여 철근비를 정할 필요가 있다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.445-455
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• 2022

Steel anchor bolts are installed in concrete using a variety of methods. One of the most common methods of anchor bolt installation is using epoxy resin as an infill material injected into the drilled hole to act as a bonding material between the steel bolt and the surrounding concrete. Typical design standards assume uniform stress distribution along the length of the anchor bolt accompanied with single crack leading to pull-out failure. Experimental evidence has shown that the steel anchor bolts fail owing to the multiple failure patterns, hence these design assumptions are not realistic. In this regard, the presented research work details the analytical model that takes into consideration multiple micro cracks in the infill material induced via impact loading. The impact loading from the Schmidt hammer is used to evaluate the bond condition bond condition of anchor bolt and the epoxy material. The added advantage of the presented analytical model is that it is able to take into account the various type of end conditions of the anchor bolts such as bent or U-shaped anchors. Through sensitivity analysis the optimum stiffness and shear strength properties of the epoxy infill material is achieved, which have shown to achieve lower displacement coupled with reduced damage to the surrounding concrete. The accuracy of the presented model is confirmed by comparing the simulated deformational responses with the experimental evidence. From the comparison it was found that the model was successful in simulating the experimental results. The proposed model can be adopted by professionals interested in predicting and controlling the deformational response of anchor bolts.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.269-279
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• 1994

본 논문은 콘크리트 구조물의 재료 비선형과 시간의존적 거동을 고려한 유한요소 해석에 관한 것으로 회전균열모델에 토대를 둔 면내균열모델을 사용하여 하중에 따른 균열의 영향을 모사하였으며 콘크리트는 직교이방성 거동을 한다고 가정하였다. 특히 휨거동 시의 인장보강효과(tension stiffening effect)를 고려하기 위해 파괴에너지 개념에 토대를 둔 한계식을 제안하였고 이를 통해 수치해석시 나타나는 유한요소의 크기에 따른 수치해석 오차의 최소화를 도모하였다. 또한 embedded model을 사용하여 철근의 거동을 모사할 경우 콘크리트의 변위장에 따라 효율적으로 대처할 수 있도록 구성방정식을 체계화 하였으며 비균열단면, 균열단면 등 여러 상황에서 구조물의 시간에 따른 거동을 살펴보기 위해 평면응력 상태에서 재령보정 탄성계수법에 따른 구성방정식을 유도하고 이를 토대로 예제해석을 수행하였다.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2017

PURPOSES : The piezoelectric energy road analysis technology using a three-dimensional finite element method was developed to investigate pavement behaviors when piezoelectric energy harvesters and a new polyurethane surface layer were installed in field conditions. The main purpose of this study is to predict the long-term performance of the piezoelectric energy road through the proposed analytical steps. METHODS : To predict the stresses and strains of the piezoelectric energy road, the developed energy harvesters were embedded into the polyurethane surface layer (50 mm from the top surface). The typical type of triaxial dump truck loading was applied to the top of each energy harvester. In this paper, a general purpose finite element analysis program called ABAQUS was used and it was assumed that a harvester is installed in the cross section of a typical asphalt pavement structure. RESULTS : The maximum tensile stress of the polyurethane surface layer in the initial fatigue model occurred up to 0.035 MPa in the transverse direction when the truck tire load was loaded on the top of each harvester. The maximum tensile stresses were 0.025 MPa in the intermediate fatigue model and 0.013 MPa in the final fatigue model, which were 72% and 37% lower than that of the initial stage model, respectively. CONCLUSIONS : The main critical damage locations can be estimated between the base layer and the surface layer. If the crack propagates, bottom-up cracking from the base layer is the main cracking pattern where the tensile stress is higher than in other locations. It is also considered that the possibility of cracking in the top-down direction at the edge of energy harvester is more likely to occur because the material strength of the energy harvester is much higher and plays a role in the supporting points. In terms of long-term performance, all tensile stresses in the energy harvester and polyurethane layer are less than 1% of the maximum tensile strength and the possibility of fatigue damage was very low. Since the harvester is embedded in the surface layer of the polyurethane, which has higher tensile strength and toughness, it can assure a good, long-term performance.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.527-539
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• 2019

In this paper, the fracture characteristics of concrete specimens with different notch depths under three-point flexural loads are studied by finite element and fracture mechanics methods. Firstly, the concrete beams (the size is 700×100×150 mm) with different notch depths (a=30 mm, 45 mm, 60 mm and 75 mm respectively) are tested to study the influence of notch depths on the mechanical properties of concrete. Subsequently, the concrete beams with notch depth of 60 mm are loaded at different loading rates to study the influence of loading rates on the fracture characteristics, and digital image correlation (DIC) is used to monitor the strain nephogram at different loading rates. The test results show that the flexural characteristics of the beams are influenced by notch depths, and the bearing capacity and ductility of the concrete decrease with the increase of notch depths. Moreover, the peak load of concrete beam gradually increases with the increase of loading rate. Then, the fracture energy of the beams is accurately calculated by tail-modeling method and the bilinear softening constitutive model of fracture behavior is determined by using the modified fracture energy. Finally, the bilinear softening constitutive function is embedded into the finite element (FE) model for numerical simulation. Through the comparison of the test results and finite element analysis, the bilinear softening model determined by the tail-modeling method can be used to predict the fracture behavior of concrete beams under different notch depths and loading rates.

• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.69-89
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• 2009

Reinforced and prestressed concrete (RC and PC) thin walls are crucial to the safety and serviceability of structures subjected to shear. The shear strengths of elements in walls depend strongly on the softening of concrete struts in the principal compression direction due to the principal tension in the perpendicular direction. The past three decades have seen a rapid development of knowledge in shear of reinforced concrete structures. Various rational models have been proposed that are based on the smeared-crack concept and can satisfy Navier's three principles of mechanics of materials (i.e., stress equilibrium, strain compatibility and constitutive laws). The Cyclic Softened Membrane Model (CSMM) is one such rational model developed at the University of Houston, which is being efficiently used to predict the behavior of RC/PC structures critical in shear. CSMM for RC has already been implemented into finite element framework of OpenSees (Fenves 2005) to come up with a finite element program called Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Structures (SRCS) (Zhong 2005, Mo et al. 2008). CSMM for PC is being currently implemented into SRCS to make the program applicable to reinforced as well as prestressed concrete. The generalized program is called Simulation of Concrete Structures (SCS). In this paper, the CSMM for RC/PC in material scale is first introduced. Basically, the constitutive relationships of the materials, including uniaxial constitutive relationship of concrete, uniaxial constitutive relationships of reinforcements embedded in concrete and constitutive relationship of concrete in shear, are determined by testing RC/PC full-scale panels in a Universal Panel Tester available at the University of Houston. The formulation in element scale is then derived, including equilibrium and compatibility equations, relationship between biaxial strains and uniaxial strains, material stiffness matrix and RC plane stress element. Finally the formulated results with RC/PC plane stress elements are implemented in structure scale into a finite element program based on the framework of OpenSees to predict the structural behavior of RC/PC thin-walled structures subjected to earthquake-type loading. The accuracy of the multiscale modeling technique is validated by comparing the simulated responses of RC shear walls subjected to reversed cyclic loading and shake table excitations with test data. The response of a post tensioned precast column under reversed cyclic loads has also been simulated to check the accuracy of SCS which is currently under development. This multiscale modeling technique greatly improves the simulation capability of RC thin-walled structures available to researchers and engineers.