Ecentric Load
Ecentric Load
Ecentric Load
ABSTRACT: The use of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) confined reinforced concrete columns are increasing rapidly for new construction as well as rebuilding of concrete structures. Design of these FRP confined
concrete columns requires an accurate estimate of the performance enhancement due to the confinement mechanism. Therefore, key issue is to develop a confinement model, which relates the confined concrete
strength with the unconfined concrete strength. In the present study, a 3-D finite element model of FRP confined reinforced concrete column under axial and eccentric loading has been developed. The finite element
model was developed using the finite element software, ANSYS. Different important parameters have been
studied in the present paper: namely, unconfined concrete strength, thickness, orthotropic properties and orientation of FRP layers. The present study has focused on some interesting aspects of these parameters on the
confinement effectiveness and has also generated many new results for future reference.
1 INTRODUCTION
The effectiveness of FRP wrapping on concrete elements such as columns has been proven by several
researchers. It is clear that there is a need to investigate the behavior of columns under eccentric loads,
as most of the columns in buildings especially those
at the edges and corner are subjected to uniaxial or
biaxial bending.
The present study aims at adding new database
for the proper understanding of FRP applications in
eccentrically loaded Reinforced concrete columns. A
nonlinear FE analysis has been used to evaluate the
effects of different parameters on the confinement
effectiveness of FRP in circular reinforced concrete
columns using the FE software ANSYS (Ref. 1).
2 FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING
Feng et al. (2002) analyzed square concrete columns
confined by FRP sheets under uni-axial compression
using FEA package ANSYS (Ref. 1). They used
William-Warnke (1975) model with five parameters
to model the failure criterion of concrete. Li et al.
(2003) used ANSYS to simulate the behavior of
FRP confined concrete columns. In the present FE
model, FRP wrapped RC column with diameter 205
mm and height 1000 mm is considered. Due to
3.3 Steel
The LINK8 element is used for all the steel reinforcement (bilinear isotropic) in the column. Elastic
modulus equal to 200000 MPa and Poissons ratio of
0.3 has been used. Tensile strengths of 500 MPa and
250 MPa are used for longitudinal and tie bars respectively. The columns have tie bars with diameter
of 10 mm at a spacing of 80 mm and six longitudinal
steels with diameter of 12 mm.
3.4 Meshing
Concrete was modeled first as a volume then
changed to a FE model by a controlled (mapped )
meshing followed by elemental modeling of the steel
(both longitudinal and tie bars). Finally the FRP was
modeled as a volume then changed to finite element
model by mapped meshing followed by modeling of
the loading stiff solid which is 150 mm long placed
and merged to the top of the concrete model. In the
present work, the number of elements used for each
of the element types for a FRP wrapped (one layer)
RC column are shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Number of elements used for different types of elements.
Element
SOLSOLID46 LINK8
SOLID45
Type
ID65
No. of
7500
490
1000
1200
element
Bars
FRP
composite
t = 1.2
mm
Poissons
ratio
25
40
60
3.114
3.939
4.824
23665
29934
36668
0.2
0.2
0.2
Longbar
Strength
MPa
Tiebar
Strength
MPa
Elastic
Modulus
MPa
Poissons
ratio
500
Elastic
Modulus
MPa
E x =9603
2
E y =5400
E z =5400
250
Poissons Ratio
2.0x105
Shear
Modulus
MPa
0.3
Ult.Tensile
Strength
MPa
xy = 0.29
yz = 0.43
zx = .016
G xy =2001
G yz =1882
G zx =2001
1353
5 CONCLUSIONS
The following conclusions can be made for the analysis results investigated in this work:
The confinement effectiveness is found to be
smaller with increase in grade of concrete
Zero degree fiber orientation has been observed
to be the most effective for models under pure
axial load and 90 degrees fiber orientation was
the most effective for eccentric loading.
External confinement with FRP composites significantly increases the strength of concrete column. However, when the eccentric load is introduced the strength loss is obvious and to a
greater extent.
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7 NOMENCLATURE
P curc
P cc
CRE50M25
CRE50M40
CRE50M60
CRE50FO0
CRE50FO45
CRE50FO90