Discussion of “Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Columns Using Partially Stiffened Steel Jackets” by Yan Xiao and Hui Wu
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Abstract
The authors have produced an interesting paper that describes jacketing methods for retrofitting square and rectangular reinforced concrete columns. In so doing, they have appreciated the beneficial effect of the flexural stiffness of the jackets and stiffeners on the development of confining pressure. The discussers have shown in a numerical study (Hussain and Driver 2001) of the behavior of reinforced concrete columns confined externally by “collars” made from steel hollow structural sections (HSS) that both the axial and flexural stiffnesses of the confinement collars have a significant effect on the enhancement in strength of the confined concrete. That is, by increasing the flexural stiffness of the confining elements without increasing their axial stiffness, a significant increase in the strength of the confined concrete is observed, although there exists a limit beyond which little benefit is gained. It was also observed that increasing the axial stiffness independently produces a significant increase in strength. Therefore, both the axial and the flexural stiffnesses of the confining elements are important for confining the column concrete. In the paper, the authors have provided a means of determining the required plate thickness for the jacket in the plastic hinge regions. Although the discussers view the general approach to be reasonable, they wish to highlight several assumptions made that tend to lead to conservatism. These assumptions were not given due attention in the paper and, when taken together, cast doubt on the appropriateness of the procedure. The authors have manipulated the ACI 318 equations for determining the total required cross-sectional area of rectangular hoop reinforcement to determine an equivalent required confining pressure, f eq. It is noted in the paper that for columns confined externally, one of the two equations will always govern, and it is repeated here for convenience: f eq = Ashf yh shc o 0.09f c
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| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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