• Advances in concrete construction
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.437-448
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• 2020

In high rise buildings that utilize precast large panel system for construction, the shear wall provides strength and stiffness during earthquakes. The performance of a wall panel system depends mainly on the type of connection used to transfer the forces from one wall element to another wall element. This paper presents an experimental investigation on different types of construction detailing of the precast wall to wall vertical connections under reverse cyclic loading. One of the commonly used connections in India to connect wall to wall panel is the loop bar connection. Hence for this study, three types of wet connections and one type of dry connection namely: Staggered loop bar connection, Equally spaced loop bar connection, U-Hook connection, and Channel connection respectively were used to connect the precast walls. One third scale model of the wall was used for this study. The main objective of the experimental work is to evaluate the performance of the wall to wall connections in terms of hysteretic behaviour, ultimate load carrying capacity, energy dissipation capacity, stiffness degradation, ductility, viscous damping ratio, and crack pattern. All the connections exhibited similar load carrying capacity. The U-Hook connection exhibited higher ductility and energy dissipation when compared to the other three connections.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2008년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.184-195
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• 2008

The use of geosynthetics for the reinforced earth wall system has been increasing rapidly for a number of years. The connection strength between wall facing and geosynthetics should be evaluated in the design of geosynthetics. However, the connection strength is not often evaluate, exactly, and it causes problems such as deformation of the wall facing, local failure of the reinforced earth wall system, conservative design and so on. Therefore, the connection strength in the design of geosynthetics should be applied evaluation result by reasonable method. This study is evaluated connection strength using the typical design method, NCMA(1997) and FHWA(1996), in the field case. Then the results compared with the evaluation results of connection strength, which is suggested by Soong & Koener(1997). The analysis results confirmed that the connection strength for the design of geosynthetics should be evaluate using reasonable method with considering various factor, such as safety factor, installation and importance of construction.

• Architectural research
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2005

No specific guidelines are available for computing the bearing strength of connection between steel coupling beam and reinforced concrete shear wall in a hybrid wall system. There were carried out analytical and experimental studies on connection between steel coupling beam and concrete shear wall in a hybrid wall system. The bearing stress at failure in the concrete below the embedded steel coupling beam section is related to the concrete compressive strength and the ratio of the width of the embedded steel coupling beam section to the thickness of the shear walls. Experiments were carried out to determine the factors influencing the bearing strength of the connection between steel coupling beam and reinforced concrete shear wall. The test variables included the reinforcement details that confer a ductile behavior in connection between steel coupling beam and shear wall, i.e., the auxiliary stud bolts attached to the steel beam flanges and the transverse ties at the top and the bottom steel beam flanges. In addition, additional test were conducted to verify the strength equations of the connection between steel coupling beam and reinforced concrete shear wall. The proposed equations in this study were in good agreement with both our test results and other test data from the literature.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.449-461
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• 2024

The vertical reinforcement connection between the precast reinforced concrete shear wall and the cast-in-place reinforced concrete member is vital to the performance of shear walls under seismic loading. This paper investigated the structural behavior of three precast reinforced concrete shear walls, with different levels of connection (i.e., full connection, partial connection, and no connection), subjected to quasi-static lateral loading. The specimens were subjected to a constant vertical load, resulting in an axial load ratio of 0.4. The crack pattern, failure modes, load-displacement relationships, ductility, and energy dissipation characteristics are presented and discussed. The resultant seismic performances of the three tested specimens were compared in terms of skeleton curve, load-bearing capacity, stiffness, ductility, energy dissipation capacity, and viscous damping. The seismic performance of the partially connected shear wall was found to be comparable to that of the fully connected shear wall, exhibiting 1.7% and 3.5% higher yield and peak load capacities, 9.2% higher deformability, and similar variation in stiffness, energy dissipation capacity and viscous damping at increasing load levels. In comparison, the seismic performance of the non-connected shear wall was inferior, exhibiting 12.8% and 16.4% lower loads at the yield and peak load stages, 3.6% lower deformability, and significantly lower energy dissipation capacity at lower displacement and lower viscous damping.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.381-397
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• 2015

Connections are the most important regions in a structural system especially for buildings in seismic zones. In R.C. structures due to large dimensions of members and lack of cognition of the stress distribution in a connection, reaching a comprehensive understanding of the connection behaviors becomes more complicated. The shear wall-to-floor slab connections in lateral load resisting systems have a potential weakness in transferring loads from slabs to shear walls which might change the path of load transformation to shear walls. This paper tries to investigate the effects of seismic load combinations on the behavior of slabs at their connection zones with the shear walls. These connection zones naturally are the most critical regions of the slabs in RC buildings. The investigation carried on in a simulated environment by considering three different structures with different shear wall layout. The final results of our study reveal that layout of shear walls in a building significantly affects the magnification of forces developed at the shear wall-floor slab connections.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2013

최근 들어 토목 구조물에도 친환경성과 경제성이 강조되고 있으며 콘크리트 블록대신 soilbag을 전면벽으로 이용하는 절토사면 보강공법이 활용되고 있다. 그러나 친환경적이고 경제적인 재료라 하더라도 안정성이 보장되지 않으면 구조물로써의 가치를 지닐 수 없다. Soilbag 옹벽의 안전성 검토를 위해 기존의 옹벽 설계프로그램인 MSEW를 사용하여 연결부에서의 인발저항, 파단, 인장응력과 내적, 외적 안전율을 산정하고 블록식 보강토 옹벽의 안전율 산정결과와 비교하였다. 연결부의 안전성을 평가할 수 있는 연결강도 감소계수를 차등 적용시켜 연결강도가 감소함에 따라 옹벽의 안전율을 검토하였고 soilbag 보강토 옹벽에서는 soilbag과 지오그리드 보강재의 연결재가 이동이 가능하기 때문에 전면구배의 변경이 자유로우므로 soilbag의 구배에 따른 안전율 변화도 확인하였다. 해석결과로부터 soilbag을 이용한 보강토 옹벽의 연결부 강도에 대한 안전율 및 내적, 외적안정에 대한 안전율을 비교 검토한 결과 전 영역에서 기준 안전율 이상임을 나타내었다.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.45-52
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• 2009

최근 국내에서는 시공성 및 경제성이 우수하고, 수려한 경관을 연출할 수 있는 보강토옹벽의 적용이 급증하고 있는 추세이다. 일반적으로 블록식 보강토옹벽 시공시 전면블록과 보강재 사이의 연결은 블록에 미리 형성시킨 돌기(전단키형 방식) 또는 플라스틱 핀(핀형 방식)을 이용하여 보강재를 블록에 정착시키는 방식으로 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 이와 같은 연결방식은 시공중 보강재에 부분적인 손상의 원인이 되며, 이로 인해 보강토옹벽의 안정성에 문제를 야기시킬 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존 연결방식의 문제점을 해결하고자, 안정성을 보다 높이고 경제성은 기존 방식과 유사한 I형 연결장치를 이용한 전면블록/지오그리드 보강재의 연결방법을 개발하였으며, 현장 적용을 위하여 연결강도 특성을 평가하였다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 철근콘크리트 프리캐스트 대형판의 접합부 설계방법 및 해석방법에 대해서 연구를 수행하였다. 접합부의 설계방법은 수평접합부와 수직접합부의 구조적 거동에 대한 안정성 및 일체성을 확보하기 위한 설계법을 제시하였고, 접합부의 해석은 강체스프링 모델에 의한 탄소성해석을 수행 하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.683-696
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• 2022

Dams are inevitably planned to be built on thick overburden with high permeability and deformability. The connection part between concrete cut-off wall in overburden and earth core in dam body is not only a key part of the anti-seepage system, but also a weak position. Large uneven settlement will be aroused at the concoction part. However, the interaction behavior and the scope of the connection part cannot be determined effectively. In this paper, numerical analysis of a high earth core dam built on thick overburden was carried out with large deformation FE method. The mechanical behavior of the connection part was detail studied. It can be drawn that there is little differences in dam integral deformation for different analysis method, but big differences were found at the connection part. The large deformation analysis method can reasonably describe the process that concrete wall penetrates into soil. The high plasticity clay has stronger ability to adapt to large uneven deformation which can reduce stress level, and stress state of concrete wall is also improved. The scope of high plasticity clay zone in the connection part can be determined according to stress level of soils and penetration depth of concrete wall.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2022

This paper presents a study on the behavior of a bolted T-stub to square tube connection using Thread-fixed One-side Bolts (TOBs) through tests and numerical simulations. It outlines a research work of four connections with focus on the failure modes and strengths of the connection under tensile load. It was observed that the thread anchor failure caused by shear failure of hole threads controlled the final failure of the connection in the tests. Meanwhile, the out-of-plane deformation of tube wall resulted in the contact separation between hole threads and bolt threads, which in turn reduced the shear strength of hole threads. Finite element models (FEMs) allowing for the configuration details of the TOBs fixed connection are then developed and compared with the test results. Subsequently, the failure mechanism of hole threads and stress distribution of each component are analyzed based on FEM results. It was concluded that the ultimate strength of connection was not only concerned with the shear strength of hole threads, but also was influenced by the plastic out-of-plane deformation of tube wall. These studies lay a foundation for the establishment of suitable design methods of this type of connection.