Experimental and Numerical Study for the Shear Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using Textile-Reinforced Mortar
Publication: Journal of Composites for Construction
Volume 16, Issue 1
Abstract
In this paper, the effectiveness of textile-reinforced mortars (TRMs), as a means of increasing the shear resistance of reinforced concrete beams, is experimentally and numerically investigated. Textiles comprise of fabric meshes made of long woven, knitted or even unwoven fiber rovings in at least two (typically orthogonal) directions. Mortars—serving as binders—may (or may not) contain polymeric additives usually used to have improved strength properties. These TRMs may be considered as an alternative to fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP), providing solutions to many of the problems associated with application of the latter without compromising much of the performance of strengthened members. In the present study, a new type of textile (basalt-based textile) was used as strengthening material. Two different mortar types’ viz. cementitious and polymer-modified cementitious mortars were used as binding material for the textile sheets. The studied parameters also included the number of textile layers as well as the orientation of the textile material. The experimental program comprises of testing two control beams which were intentionally designed to be deficient in shear, in addition to testing eight beams which were externally upgraded by TRM sheets for enhancing their shear capacity. On the basis of the experimental response of reinforced concrete members strengthened in shear, it is concluded that textile-mortar composite provides substantial gain in shear resistance; this gain is higher as the number of layers increases. With higher number of layers, textile with 45° orientation along with polymer-modified cementitious mortar provides the highest shear strength enhancement. Nonlinear finite-element (FE) analysis was also carried out on the tested beams using LS-DYNA, which is transient nonlinear dynamic analysis software. The numerical analysis carried out involved case studies for TRM modeled, with and without mortar. Good agreement was achieved between the experimental and numerical results especially for the ultimate load carrying capacity for the case of FE models incorporating mortar. The study was extended numerically to include additional cases of TRM-strengthened specimens with more number of TRM layers as well as a case of FRP-strengthened specimen.
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Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the Specialty Units for Safety and Preservation of Structures and the MMB Chair for Research and Studies in Strengthening and Rehabilitation of Structures at the College of Engineering, King Saud University.
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Journal of Composites for Construction
Volume 16 • Issue 1 • February 2012
Pages: 74 - 90
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© 2012. American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jan 24, 2011
Accepted: Jun 14, 2011
Published in print: Feb 1, 2012
Published online: Apr 27, 2012
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