Shear strength and behavior of circular concrete members reinforced with FRP bars and spirals = Étude du comportement et de la résistance à l’effort tranchant d'éléments circulaires en béton armé de barres longitudinales et de spirales en matériaux composites de PRF
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Abstract
Abstract : Circular reinforced concrete (RC) members are often used in civil engineering structures, for instance, as piers and piles in bridge substructures. Also, their applications are frequently utilized as a fender and piling system for harsh water front and marine environments. Such members are usually reinforced with conventional steel bars and stirrups. Corrosion of steel reinforcement constitutes one of the major problems that shorten the lifetime serviceability and, hence, brittle failure of many concrete structures worldwide. In the last decade, the use of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) materials has been growing to solve some of these problems and increase the anticipated service life of RC structures, such as bridges, parking garages, tunnels, and marine structures. Recently, the use of FRP bars in soft-eyes, which are openings in retaining walls that will be pierced by tunnel boring machines (TBMs), is gaining popularity in the field of tunnel excavation. In recent years, the shear behavior of RC members reinforced with FRP bars has been the focus of many studies. Accordingly, several codes and design guidelines are available for the design of concrete structures reinforced with FRP bars under shear loads. These codes and design guidelines were developed based on experimental work on rectangular concrete members reinforced with FRP bars and stirrups. Yet, no research seems to have assessed circular concrete members reinforced with FRP bars and spirals under shear loads. In this research study, an experimental program was designed to investigate the shear behavior of circular members reinforced with glass FRP (GFRP) and carbon FRP (CFRP) bars, and spirals. A total of twenty full-scale circular RC specimens, with a total length 3,000 mm and 500 mm in diameter, were fabricated and tested experimentally under shear load. The specimens were divided to five series; series I contains two reference steel-RC specimens with and without spiral reinforcement. Series II contains three specimens internally reinforced with GFRP longitudinal bars and without spiral reinforcement. Series III contains five specimens reinforced with GFRP longitudinal bars and spirals (Type I). Series IV includes six specimens reinforced with GFRP bars and spirals (Type II), while series V includes four specimens totally reinforced with CFRP reinforcement. The experimental tests were performed at the structural laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sherbrooke. The main objective of testing these specimens is to investigate the behavior of circular concrete members reinforced with GFRP or CFRP longitudinal bars and transverse spirals reinforcement. Several parameters have been studied; type of reinforcement, longitudinal reinforcement ratio, shear reinforcement ratio (spiral diameter and spacing), and shear-span-to-depth ratio. The test results of the tested specimens were presented and discussed in terms of load deflection response, crack patterns and modes of failure, ultimate shear capacities, concrete, longitudinal, and…
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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