Mechanics of Concrete Participation in Cyclic Shear Resistance of RC
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 124, Issue 6
Abstract
In conventional design of shear-dominated reinforced concrete elements shear resistance is assumed to comprise reinforcement and concrete contributions. Because the design code assumes these contributions to be uncoupled and independent of the load history, the estimated nominal shear strength of reinforced concrete is insensitive to the number and intensity of imposed load cycles. However, in accordance with recent experimental evidence, the concrete contribution to shear resistance degrades with increasing ductility demand, thereby rendering the estimated nominal shear strength conservative for low levels of deformation, and increasingly unconservative for larger imposed displacements. This paper attempts to establish the parametric relationship between shear strength and deformation demand through a nonlinear analytical model of cyclic plane-stress states in reinforced concrete. The formulation establishes tensorial, constitutive, and equilibrium relations, all expressed in terms of average stresses and strains. The model was used to conduct a parametric investigation of several design variables. The rate of strength degradation and ductility capacity were used to gauge the parametric sensitivity of the problem. It was found that the calculated concrete shear contribution degraded with increasing deformation demand and was enhanced by an increase in the level of axial load and the amount of transverse reinforcement. A simplified design equation was developed from the analytical results to express the dependence of the concrete contribution term on the intensity of imposed deformation demand.
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