• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.9-24
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• 2024

In order to study the shear mechanical behavior of prefabricated and assembled multi-key group stud connectors, this paper conducted push-out tests on 10 prefabricated and assembled multi-key group stud connectors, distributed in 5 groups, and detailed the failure modes of each specimen. Based on the finite element software, a total of 22 models of this type of stud connector are established, and validated the finite element models using the push-out tests. Furthermore, the effects of stud diameter, number of key groups, and spacing of key groups on the shear resistance of prefabricated and assembled multi-key group stud connectors are analyzed. Combined with the test and finite element, the force analysis is carried out for the stud and first-pouring and post-pouring concrete. The results show that the spacing and number of key groups have a significant impact on the shear capacity and shear stiffness of the specimen. For a single stud, the shear force is transferred to the surrounding concrete via the stud's root. When the stud is finally cut, the steel and the concrete plate are separated. Under vertical shear force, the top row of studs experiences the highest shear, while the middle row has the least. Based on statistical regression, a formula of assembled multi-key group stud connectors is proposed.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.967-980
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• 2014

In regions of high shear forces in composite bridges, headed stud shear connectors need to be arranged with a small spacing in order to satisfy the design requirement of resisting the high interface shear force present at this location. Despite this, studies related to groups of headed studs are somewhat rare. This paper presents an investigation of the static behaviour of grouped stud shear connectors in high-strength concrete. Descriptions are given of five push-out test specimens with different arrangements of the studs that were fabricated and tested, and the failure modes, load-slip response, ultimate load capacities and related slip values that were obtained are reported. It is found that the load-slip equation given by some researchers based on a single stud shear connector in normal strength concrete do not apply to grouped stud shear connectors in high-strength concrete, and an algebraic load-slip expression is proposed based on the test results. Comparisons between the test results and the formulae provided by some national codes show that the equations for the ultimate capacity provided in these codes are conservative when used for connectors in high-strength concrete. A reduction coefficient is proposed to take into account the effect of the studs being in a group.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.303-312
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• 2007

경간 40m~100m 정도 경간에 대해 일반적으로 강 박스 거더교에 대한 설계가 이루어지고 있다. 상부구조의 자중을 줄이기 위해서 복합트러스 교량에서 복부의 콘크리트 웹 대신에 강 사재가 사용되고 있다. 이러한 복합트러스 교량의 설계 시 가장 중요한 부분 중의 하나가 콘크리트 상 하부를 연결하는 연결부의 형태이다. 이러한 접합부는 외부에서 작용하는 조합하중을 분담해야하는데, 아직 이러한 접합구조에 대한 명확한 설계기준이 없는 실정이다. 한계상태에서 격점부의 하중전달에 대한 명확한 연구와 설계방법에 대한 조사가 필요하다. 콘크리트 상 하부를 연결하는 격점부 사재는 다양한 연결형태가 있다. 이번 논문에서는 거셋 플레이트에 용접되어진 그룹 스터드 연결재에 관한 연구가 수행되었다. 25mm 절곡 스터드를 사용하여 수행된 전단실험을 통하여 현재의 스터드 간 최소기준 간격을 만족하는 상태에서는 현재의 설계 규정을 사용할 수 있음을 밝혔다. 휨-전단 실험을 통해서는 조합하중이 작용하는 격점부의 상세를 개선하였다. 격점부의 인발강도를 증진시키기 위해서 절곡 스터드가 제안되었고 그룹 스터드의 최 외측 스터드에 적용되었다. 이러한 결과들을 바탕으로 복합 트러스 교량의 개선된 격점부 상세가 개선되고 설계 방안이 제안되었다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.183-196
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• 2018

The traditional prestressed concrete composite box-girders with corrugated steel webs have several drawbacks such as large deflection and potential local buckling. In this study, two methods were investigated to optimize and improve the prestressed concrete composite box-girders with corrugated steel webs. The first method was to replace the concrete bottom slab with a steel plate and the second method was to support the concrete bottom slab on the steel flanges. The behavior of the prestressed concrete composite box-girders with corrugated steel webs with either method was studied by experiments on three specimens. The test results showed that behavior of the optimized and upgraded prestressed concrete composite box-girders with corrugated steel webs, including ultimate bearing capacity, flexural stiffness, and crack resistance, is greatly improved. In addition, the influence of different shear connectors, including perfobond leisten (PBL) and stud shear connectors, on the behavior of prestressed concrete composite box-girders with corrugated steel webs was studied. The results showed that PBL shear connectors can greatly improve the ultimate bearing capacity, flexural stiffness and crack resistance property of the prestressed concrete composite box-girders with corrugated steel webs. However, for the efficiency of prestressing introduced into the girder, the PBL shear connectors do not perform as well as the stud shear connectors.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제81권5호
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• pp.551-563
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• 2022

Bolted connector could be an alternative to replace the conventional welded headed stud in steel-ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) lightweight composite structures. In this paper, a novel demountable bolted shear connector, consisting of a high-strength bolt (HSB) and a specially-designed nut which is pre-embedded in a thin UHPC slab, is proposed, which may result in the quick installation and disassembly, due to the mountable, demountable and reusable features. In order to study the shear behavior of the new type of bolted shear connector, static push-out tests were conducted on five groups of the novel demountable bolted shear connector specimens and one group of conventional welded headed stud specimen for comparison. The effect of the bolt shank diameter and aspect ratio of bolt on failure mode, shear stiffness, peak slip at the steel-UHPC interface, shear strength and ductility of novel bolted connectors is investigated. Additionally, design formula for the shear strength is proposed to check the suitability for assessment of the novel demountable bolted shear connectors.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.659-674
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• 2024

Casting Ultra High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) on an orthotropic steel deck and forming a composite action by connectors could improve the steel deck fatigue performance. This study presents the mechanical performance of a proposed post-combination connection between UHPC and steel, which had a low constraint effect on UHPC shrinkage. A total of 10 push-out tests were conducted for static and fatigue performance investigations. And the test results were compared with evaluation methods in codes to verify the latter's applicability. Meanwhile, nonlinear simulation and parametric works with material damage plasticity models were also conducted for the static and fatigue failure mechanism understanding. The static and fatigue test results both showed that fractures at stud roots and surrounding local UHPC crushes were the main failure appearances. Compared with normally arranged studs, group arrangement could result in reductions of static stud shear stiffness, strength, and fatigue lives, which were about 18%, 12%, and 27%, respectively. Compared with the test results, stud shear capacity and fatigue lives evaluations based on the codes of AASHTO, Eurocode 4, JSCE and JTG D64 could be applicable in general while the safety redundancies tended to be smaller or even insufficient for group studs. The analysis results showed that arranging studs in groups caused obviously uneven strain distributions. The severer stress concentration and larger strain ranges caused the static and fatigue performance degradations of group studs. The research outcome provides a very important basis for establishing a design method of connections in the novel post-combination steel-UHPC composite deck.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.333-345
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• 2008

프리캐스트 콘크리트 바닥판 교량의 적용이 2거더 교량이나 개구제형 강박스 교량으로 확대되고 있다. 소수거더교에 프리캐스트 바닥판 교량의 적용에서 가장 어려운 점은 완전합성을 확보하기 위해 필요한 전단연결재의 배치이다. 좁은 영역에 많은 연결재를 배치해야 하기 때문에 프리캐스트 바닥판의 단면 손실이 커서 철근의 배치가 어렵게 된다. 이 논문에서는 현재 설계 기준에서 제시하고 있는 스터드 전단연결재의 최소 간격보다 좁은 연결재 간격을 가질 경우의 극한 강도 특성을 정적 실험을 통해 평가하였다. 실험결과로부터 최소 간격보다 좁은 간격으로 배치할 경우에 현재의 설계기준 강도보다 낮은 극한 강도를 발현하는 것으로 나타났고 프리캐스트 슬래브의 보강 혹은 포켓부의 부분보강의 효과로 인해 강도 증진이 나타났다. 그룹 스터드 전단연결부의 설계는 연결재 전단강도와 콘크리트 슬래브의 강도의 상대적인 비로부터 파괴모드를 예측하고 연결재 파괴를 유도할 수 있도록 이루어져야 한다. 실험결과로부터 스터드 간격을 고려한 그룹 스터드 전단연결부의 극한강도에 대한 경험식을 제안하였다. 피로실험을 수행한 결과로부터 이 연구의 실험범위내에서는 그룹스터드 전단연결부의 피로강도 감소가 나타나지 않는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 연구결과를 활용하여 프리캐스트 바닥판의 상세를 개선하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.59-71
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• 2023

Corrosion of the headed studs shear connectors is an important factor in the reduction of the durability and mechanical properties of the steel-concrete composite structure. In order to study the effect of stud corrosion on the mechanical properties in the negative moment region of steel-concrete composite beams, the corrosion of stud was carried out by accelerating corrosion method with constant current. Static monotonic loading was adopted to evaluate the cracking load, interface slip, mid-span deflection, and ultimate bearing capacity of four composite beams with varying corrosion rates of headed studs. The effect of stud corrosion on the stiffness of the composite beam's hogging moment zone during normal service stage was thoroughly examined. The results indicate that the cracking load decreased by 50% as the corrosion rate of headed studs increase to 10%. Meanwhile, due to the increase of interface slip and mid-span deflection, the bending stiffness dropped significantly with the same load. In comparison to uncorroded specimens, the secant stiffness of specimens with 0.5 times ultimate load was reduced by 25.9%. However, corrosion of shear studs had no obvious effect on ultimate bending capacity. Based on the experimental results and the theory of steel-concrete interface slip, a method was developed to calculate the bending stiffness in the negative bending moment region of composite beams during normal service stage while taking corrosion of headed studs into account. The validity of the calculation method was demonstrated by data analysis.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.389-399
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• 2018

A perforated shear connector group is commonly used to transfer shear in steel-concrete composite structures when the traditional shear stud connection is not strong enough. The multi-hole perforated shear connector demonstrates a more complicated behavior than the single connector. The internal force distribution in a specific multi-hole perforated shear connector group has not been thoroughly studied. This study focuses on the load-carrying capacity and shear force distribution of multi-hole perforated shear connectors in steel-concrete composite structures. ANSYS is used to develop a three-dimensional finite element model to simulate the behavior of multi-hole perforated connectors. Material and geometric nonlinearities are considered in the model to identify the failure modes, ultimate strength, and load-slip behavior of the connection. A three-layer model is introduced and a closed-form solution for the shear force distribution is developed to facilitate design calculations. The shear force distribution curve of the multi-hole shear connector is catenary, and the efficiency coefficient must be considered in different limit states.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.325-328
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• 2006

Joint structures of composite truss bridges can have the same details for the connection between diagonal members and upper concrete slab as the connection between diagonal members and lower concrete slab. Adequate connection details should be decided according to design codes, constructibility, and economical evaluation. It is necessary to clarify the design check items and load transferring mechanism because combined external loads on composite truss bridges are concentrated at the joints. Joints with gusset plates and stud connectors are applied and complicated joint details may arise some problems in construction. This paper deals with experimental evaluation of the joints in composite truss bridges and proper design provisions were investigated to enhance the details. Push-out test specimens with group studs were fabricated and the effects of grouping and bent studs were studied.