Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7169162 Engineering Fracture Mechanics 2018 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
Strain hardening cementitious composite (SHCC) is an attractive construction material used for reinforced concrete (RC) strengthening, and a simplified method has been previously proposed for evaluating the behavior of SHCC flexural strengthening RC member (Zhang, Engineering Fracture Mechanics 2014; 121-122: 11-27), whereas the load carrying capacity of strengthened RC member is over-estimated using the simplified method. In this study, a numerical approach improved from the aforementioned method is presented for accurately evaluating the behavior of SHCC flexural strengthening RC member, considering the influence of the tensile strain capacity of SHCC, presence of localized concrete cracks and varying SHCC layer thickness, in which a zero-span tensile model with fictitious material is adopted to obtain the average tensile behavior of SHCC layer for strengthening RC member with crack. The effectiveness of the improved numerical approach is confirmed thorough the comparison between experimental and numerical investigations.
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