Effect of Stirrups Orientation on Flexural Response of RC Deep Beams

Atteshamuddin S. Sayyad; Subhash V. Patankar

doi:10.12691/ajcea-1-5-4

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Effect of Stirrups Orientation on Flexural Response of RC Deep Beams

Atteshamuddin S. Sayyad^1,, Subhash V. Patankar¹

¹Department of Civil Engineering, SRES’s college of Engineering, Kopargaon-423601, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

In this paper, the effect of stirrup orientation on flexural response of reinforced concrete (RC) deep beams with two different shear-span-to-depth (a/d) ratios is presented. For RC beams with the same shear and flexural reinforcements, shear failure is most likely to occur in deep beams rather than in regular beams. Thus, solution for deep beams with shear deficiencies is of great importance. For that purpose a lateral, vertical and inclined stirrup design with two different ‘a/d’ ratios is proposed. A series of tests were carried out in order to demonstrate the effect of proposed design. The test results of proposed lateral stirrup design indicated the increase of load carrying capacity. The present study shows that the ‘a/d’ ratio has more influence on the shear capacity, as ‘a/d’ ratio increases, the shear strength increases in case of short deep beam. The relative effectiveness of lateral (horizontal), vertical and inclined web reinforcement on the load capacity is mainly influenced by the ‘a/d’ ratio. The strength considered for investigation is flexural strength. Beam of size 700mm X 150mm X 150mm for flexure strength. The specimens were water cured for 28 days and tested with 2 point load subsequently.

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Keywords: deep beam, orientation of stirrup, shear capacity, shear-spans-to-depth ratio, shear failure

American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2013 1 (5), pp 107-111.
DOI: 10.12691/ajcea-1-5-4

Received June 15, 2013; Revised July 16, 2013; Accepted July 18, 2013

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Sayyad, Atteshamuddin S., and Subhash V. Patankar. "Effect of Stirrups Orientation on Flexural Response of RC Deep Beams." American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 1.5 (2013): 107-111.

Sayyad, A. S. , & Patankar, S. V. (2013). Effect of Stirrups Orientation on Flexural Response of RC Deep Beams. American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 1(5), 107-111.

Sayyad, Atteshamuddin S., and Subhash V. Patankar. "Effect of Stirrups Orientation on Flexural Response of RC Deep Beams." American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 1, no. 5 (2013): 107-111.

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1. Introduction

Deep beam has always been a subject of interest in structural engineering practice. With the strong growth of construction work in many developing countries, deep beam design and its behaviour prediction is a subject of considerable relevance. A deep beam, generally speaking, is a beam having a depth comparable to the span length. A reinforced concrete member in which the total span or shear span is exceptionally small in relation to its depth is called a deep beam. Beams or components are considered deep when the shear-span-to-depth ratio (a/d ratio) is less than or equal to 2. Some researchers suggest that deep beam behaviour can exist to ‘a/d’ ratio of 2.5. Reinforced concrete deep beams have useful applications in tall buildings, offshore structures, and foundations. Mostly, deep beams occur as transfer a girder, which supports the load from one or more columns, transferring laterally to other columns. Deep beam action also occurs in some walls and pile caps.

A predominant failure mode of such members is shear failure and the shear action leads to compression in a diagonal direction and tension in a perpendicular thereto. The disturbance of internal stresses due to heavy concentrate loads causes deterioration in the load-carrying capacity of these members and fosters an abrupt shear failure as the overall depth of beam section increases. Thus, it is necessary to investigate the shear behaviour of deep beams according to various variables including section size. A relatively large number of studies have investigated the different main factors included in the problem: shear-span-to-depth ratio, cross sectional properties, amount, type and location of web reinforcement, concrete strength, size, shape and location of web opening.

Since the early 1900s, sectional truss models have made great contributions towards the shear design of shallow beams, but they are not suitable for deep beams due to them not satisfying the plane-section assumption. However, the strut-and-tie model (STM) has been widely adopted in the analysis and design of reinforced concrete deep beams for about twenty years, and recommended by numerous codes. It has also been used to analyse prestressed concrete deep beams by several researchers.

Gedik et al. ^[1] proposed a new stirrup design for short deep beams by considering three-dimensional effects such as lateral deformations and spalling of concrete. Stirrups are placed laterally in the shear span along the beam height in order to prevent lateral deformations by confinement effect. Mohammad et al. ^[2] studied the behaviour, design and analysis of high strength reinforced concrete (HSC) deep beams regarding the neutral axis variation and observed that, the strain distribution of deep beam is nonlinear before of tensile bars yielding state but it transforms to an almost linear state at ultimate condition due to horizontal steel bars behavior and crack progress. It was also evident that at the ultimate limit state, the stress distribution in compression area in the concrete is not parabolic as in the shallow beams. The intersection points of strain distribution decrease with the increase of the applied load. In other word the number of neutral axis depth will decreases after the yield point up to the ultimate load. Kim et al. ^[3] investigated structural behaviours of deep beams under combined axial and bending load. The deep beams are prepared to have different span-to-depth ratios from 0.5 to 1.5 and subjected to axial loads of 235kN and 470kN. When the shear span-to-depth ratio decreases with increased axial load, the deep beam is failed due to concrete crushing before shear failure is occurred. These experimental results indicate that early failure of the beam is occurred due to concrete crushing when the deep beam is under axial load with relatively small shear span-to-depth ratio.

Lu et al. ^[4] proposed an analytical method for determining the shear strengths of steel reinforced concrete deep beams under the failure mode of concrete crushing originally based on the softened strut-and-tie model. The proposed method can accurately predict the shear strengths of SRC deep beams with vertical hoops or without vertical hoops. The major factors influencing the shear-carrying behavior of SRC deep beams have been found to be the ratio of the flange width to the gross width, shear-span-to-depth ratio, and the compressive strength of concrete. Yang et al. ^[5] interpreted the shear characteristics of high-strength concrete deep beams including size effects of beam section and evaluated the validity of the ACI code. Kotsovos et al. ^[6] have investigated the design of RC deep beams. Kong et al. ^[7] has given the formula for estimating the shear strength of reinforced concrete deep beams and for designing their web reinforcement and conclude that the ultimate shear strength of a deep beam is made up of 2 parts: the contribution of the concrete and that of the web reinforcement. Rajasekaran et al. ^[8] has developed theory to find compression depth as well as shear strength with or without web reinforcement. Kong et al. ^[9] studied the effect of inclined web reinforcement in RC deep beam Arabzadeh et al. ^[10] conducted an experimental and analytical investigation to study the behaviour of high strength RC deep beams and conclude that, the shear reinforcement are subjected to variable strains depends on their location in the span of the beams. The steel bars placed in central zone of shear span are subjected to higher strain than those placed near the support. Consequently it is probable that the shear reinforcement cannot attain their yielding force, it shall be considered in equilibrium conditions of strut-and-tie model.

2. Test Program

2.1. Preliminary Test for Investigation

Preliminary tests carried out on ingredients of concrete are as follows:

1). Cement- Concrete plus, which is specially formulated cement made by inter-grinding, higher strength ordinary Portland cement clinker with high quality processed fly ash. Since it utilizes a hazardous by-product of coal like fly ash, Concrete plus also helps in conserving the environment.

2). Aggregate: Locally available aggregates used are kept fairly uniform in size to minimize surface roughness and for a better aesthetic. The size of the aggregate used, can vary from 4.75 mm to 20 mm.

a). Coarse aggregate (CA): Course aggregates of size 20 mm and 10 mm are used.

b). Fine aggregate (FA): Locally available river sand confirming to zone I is used as a fine aggregate.

The detail properties of CA and FA are given in Table 2.

Table 1. Preliminary tests data of cement

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Effect of Stirrups Orientation on Flexural Response of RC Deep Beams

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Effect of Stirrups Orientation on Flexural Response of RC Deep Beams

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Cite this article:

1. Introduction

2. Test Program

Table 1. Preliminary tests data of cement

Table 2. Preliminary tests data of aggregates

Table 3. Preliminary tests on concrete

Table 4. Details of beam specimens

Table 5. Test results

3. Discussion

4. Conclusions

Acknowledgement

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