1. Behavior of reinforced concrete deep beam with openings strengthened by NSM steel bars.
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Hasan, Murtada Naji and Kamonna, Hayder Hussein
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STEEL bars , *CONCRETE beams , *REINFORCED concrete , *TALL buildings , *PROBLEM solving - Abstract
Deep beams have spread recently and have been widely used in various concrete structures because they bear greater loads than normal beams. This spread was accompanied by several problems, including the obstruction of electrical, mechanical and other services, especially in high-rise buildings. To solve the problems above, they resorted to making openings of various shapes inside these beams to conduct what is related to these services, taking into account the treatment of the region surrounding the openings to avoid early failure. Therefore, this research explains one of the techniques used: the near-surface mounted repair technique using steel bars through which deep reinforced concrete beams containing openings were repaired. The experimental work included testing nine beams with cross-section (200*450) mm² and length (1600 mm). Eight of these nine beams were repaired after pre-loading with a damage ratio (40% & 65%) of their ultimate capacity, while one beam was left unrepaired as a control beam. All nine of these beams contain rectangular openings (140*144) mm² in the middle of the shear spans. The considered parameters are the repairing bars orientation (vertical and inclined), reinforcement quantity, changing the steel bars number or diameter bars and initial damage ratio (40% & 65%). The specimens were tested under two loading points. The test results showed that the highest ratio of restored shear capacity was (139.39%) (which means the capacity ratio with respect to the specimen un-strengthened one having the same openings size) when using the inclined repairing scheme, while the lowest restored percentage was (75.75%) when using the vertical repairing scheme. It was found that reducing the number of bars by half when adopting the vertical scheme led to a higher decrease in the ultimate load by (24.24%) and a higher increase in the ductility and stiffness of the beams that were (9.968% & 70.441%), respectively after pre-loading them with two damage ratios (40% & 65%) compared with control beam. In addition to the above, enlarging the bars diameter from (10 mm) to (12 mm) and adopting the inclined scheme led to improve the ultimate load and stiffness by (25.75% & 110.598%) respectively, compared with the control beam. An increase in stiffness by (53.617%) was obtained in the specimen, repaired by inclined steel bars of (12 mm) in diameter and damage ratio of (40%). A slight decrease in ductility occurred when the diameter of the repairing bar was increased from (10 mm) to (12 mm) when adopting the inclined repairing scheme for specimen having damage ratio of (65%). Finally, in general, specimens with inclined repairing schemes showed an increase in ductility and stiffness more than those with vertical repairing schemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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