Structural Behavior Of Precast High Strength Reinforced Concrete Vierendeel Truss Walls: A Numerical ApproachShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: International Journal of GEOMATE, ISSN 2186-2982, Vol. 21, no 84, p. 137-150Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Reinforced concrete (RC) walls have been widely used in different types of civil engineering projects. Therefore, their behaviour under several kinds of loading is of utmost importance. In this study, the main objective is to investigate the behaviour of RC Vierendeel walls under the applied loads by employing numerical analyses for the studied walls. Several assumptions are adopted in these analyses to simulate the actual behaviour of Vierendeel walls, which were experimentally studied in previous investigations. The numerical results showed that the simulated numerical behaviour has a very good agreement with the experimental results of the tested models. Statically, this agreement is validated and verified in terms of the mean and standard deviation values. Therefore, the proposed numerical models and assumptions are the suitable ones to simulate the structural behaviour of these walls under the applied conditions. The structural behaviour is presented in terms of load capacity, crack pattern, deflection, and mode of failure. The results show that the reactive powder concrete (RPC) models have more resistance under the applied load in terms of deflection, cracks, and ductility index than the models of normal strength concrete (NSC). Also, the openings are the main reason for the diagonal cracking at the corners of the RC walls. The deflection in all models is a single curvature. The mode of failure for all models is shear.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
The Geomate International Society , 2021. Vol. 21, no 84, p. 137-150
Keywords [en]
Numerical Approach, Precast Concrete, High Strength Reinforced Concrete, ANSYS, Reactive Powder Concrete, Normal Strength Concrete, Vierendeel Truss Walls
National Category
Infrastructure Engineering
Research subject
Building Materials
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-86067DOI: 10.21660/2021.84.j2159ISI: 000665805100016Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85110573365OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-86067DiVA, id: diva2:1574132
Note
Validerad;2021;Nivå 2;2021-06-28 (johcin)
2021-06-282021-06-282022-06-01Bibliographically approved