Model for the Plastic Region in Slender RC Columns with Nonlinear Moment and Stiffness Profiles
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 143, Issue 9
Abstract
This paper presents a nonlinear inelastic solution for the length of the critical plastic region in the case of nonlinear moment profiles along RC bridge columns. A new analytical expression for the length of the plastic region capturing the combined effects that column slenderness, second-order moments, and the reduced postyield flexural stiffness have on the spread of plasticity over the column length is proposed. Variable flexural stiffness along the column height was also considered. Experimental results from three slender RC bridge columns with aspect ratios (shear span to diameter) greater than 10 were used to verify the analytical solution. Moreover, the results from the proposed solution were compared against previous models and it was found that the presented nonlinear inelastic solution offers better performance over linear and nonlinear elastic solutions for predicting the length of the plastic region and how it is affected by geometric nonlinearities and moments.
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Acknowledgments
The research described in this paper was carried out with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grants CMMI-1000549 and CMMI-1000797.
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Volume 143 • Issue 9 • September 2017
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Received: Nov 3, 2016
Accepted: Mar 22, 2017
Published online: Jun 24, 2017
Published in print: Sep 1, 2017
Discussion open until: Nov 24, 2017
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