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In this paper, an experimental and numerical investigation of six steel fibre reinforced reactive powder concrete (RPC)
columns with 150 mrn square cross sections is reported. The columns were tested in either concentric or eccentric com-
pression with varying initial eccentricities. The RPC mix contained 2% (by volume) of 0.2 mm diameter by 13 mrn long
straight steel fibres with concrete strengths ranging from 140 to 155 MPa. The columns contained either 4% or 7% of
longitudinal reinforcement but no tie reinforcement in the test region. Experimental data on the axial load and lateral
and axial deformations was obtained for each test, together with the failure mode. All the columns failed in a controlled
manner without observing spalling of concrete cover or buckling of the longitudinal reinforcement to well beyond the
peak load. The columns were further modelled using the finite element (FE) software DIANA, the results from which
reasonably correlate to test data.
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cylinders tested from each batch. The tensile strength
(fdp) was determined using a standard double punch test
on 200 mm high by 100 mm diameter cylinders using a
pair of 25 mm high by 25 mm diameter rigid circular I
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steel punches on the top and bottom surfaces of the ~
specimens (see Fig. 2). The tensile strength was then
determined using the Chen and Yuan (1980) equation.
The flexural tensile strengths (fcr) were obtained from
lOa x 100 mm high
notched three point bending tests. The specimens used
strength steel pin ---
in this test were 100 mm square prisms spanning
400 mm with a notch depth of being 25 mm. The
notches were formed by a 3 mm wide saw cut across the ~
full width of the specimen. The specimens were counter 200 x 200 x 70 mm
balanced to eliminate the effect of the self-weight on the high strength steel
fracture measurement. The notched specimens were plate
controlled using the crack mouth opening displacement
(CMOD). The control specimen properties are given in
Table 1 where Ec is the Young modulus of elasticity, v is
the Poisson's ratio,fcm is the mean cylinder compressive
strength and Gf is the fracture energy. Figure 3 presents (b) Details of loading plates and bearing pins
a typical stress strain curve obtained from testing a Fig. 1 Specimen details and loading plate arrangement.
200 mm high by 100 mm diameter RPC cylinder cast
with specimen RPCI. Figure 4 shows a typical graph
for load versus CMOD for the RPC mix.
2.5 Fabrication
The columns were cast in reusable steel forms and, due
to the limited capacity of the concrete mixer, each col-
Fig. 2 Experimental setup for double punch tensile
umn was cast separately. To reinforce each haunch, four
strength test.
N12 comer bars were cut to length and shaped to the
haunches. Two sizes of 4 mm diameter wire ties (W4) 160
Specimen fcm V
Ec fdp f cf Flow Gf
(MPa) (MPa) (MPa) (MPa) (mm) (N/mm)
RPCl 155 0.12 44150 7.8 15.3 195 10.8
RPC2 153 0.09 41670 6.9 35.6 195 32.8
RPC3 154 0.12 41600 7.6 10 210 21.5
axis of
rotation
Lvon
LVDT2
m I
LVOTI
L VOT4
LVOT5
4000
3500
3000
z~ Z2500
1j
2500 ~
1j 2000
~ 2000 ~
iij ~ 1500
~ 1500
~ 1000
1000
500
o
o 10 20 30 40 5 10 15 20 25
rrid-height lateral displacement (nro) rrid-height lateral displacement (nro)
Z 2000
3000
~
1j
Z ~ 1500
~ 2500
1j
iij
~ 2000
...J
~ 1000
iij 1500
~
columns are plotted together with the axial force- (a) Specimen with N 16 longitudinal reinforcement
bending moment interaction diagram. The interaction
diagram was obtained by using an elastic-perfectly plas-
tic stress-strain model for the concrete with an elastic 4000
modulus of 43 GPa, compressive failure strain of 0.005
3500
and with kjvalues of 1.0 and 0.9, where kj is the in-situ
strength factor and is given by kj =fc/f;'/11 . Figure 11 3000
shows that the peak load is greater than the theoretical Z
:::.
2500
model and it is suggested that the fibres provide some 'tl
ft -------
fsy
Es
(b)
Fig. 14 (a) Concrete failure surface using Drucker-Prager
Fig. 13 FE mesh used for modelling the RPC columns plasticity model in principal stress space with tension
tested. cutoff and (b) Linear softening model in tension.
Parameters for concrete plasticity model Parameters for modelling tensile cracking
3000 4000
- Experiment - Experiment
2500 - FE analysis - FE analysis
3200
Z Z
~ 2000 ~
"0
I'll "0 2400
0
..J
1500 I'll
0
..J
(ij 1600
1000 (ij
~ ~
500 800
0 0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 0 1 2 3 4 5
mid-height lateral deflection (mm) mid-height lateral deflection (mm)
(a) RPCI column (b) RPC2 column
2500 3500
- Experiment
- Experiment 3000 - FE analysis
2000
~ FE analysis Z 2500
Z
~ ~
"0 1500 "0 2000
I'll I'll
0 0
..J
..J
1500
(ij 1000 (ij
1000
~ ~
500
500
0 0
0 2 4 6 8 0 .1 2 3 4 5 6
mid-height lateral deflection (mm) mid-height lateral deflection (mm)
(c) RPC4 column (d) RPC5 column
4000 4
Z
3600 Strain at
location 2
Strain at
location 4
30
2 '
4
5
Z
.ll:
3000
30
2 '
C'.L.
5 ~
"0
I'll
2700
\ &
\'
C.L
"0
I'll
0
..J 1800 Axis of rotation
0
..J
2000 & Strain at location 1
\ Strain at location 4 Ax is of rotation 900
1000
Strain at location 3
0 0
0 0.004 0.008 0 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005
Fig. 16 Comparison of load versus axial strain measurement for the experimental and FE analysis.
Construction Research, Delft, The Netherlands.
Foster, S. J., Liu, J. and Sheikh, S. A. (1998). "Cover
spalling in HSC columns loaded in concentric
compression." ASCE, Journal of Structural
Six high strength steel fibre reinforced RPC square col- Engineering, 124(12), 1431-1437.
umns without steel ties were tested in combined com- Foster, S. 1. and Attard, M. M. (1997). "Experimental
pression and bending. The tests showed that inclusion of tests on eccentrically loaded high-strength concrete
high volumes of steel fibres is an effective way of pre- columns." ACI Structural Journal, 94(3),295-303.
venting both spalling of the cover concrete and buckling Foster, S. J. (2001). "On behavior of HSC columns:
of the longitudinal reinforcement. A considerable reduc- cover spalling, steel fibers and ductility." ACI
tion or, perhaps, elimination of tie reinforcement for Structural Journal, 98(4), July-August, 583-589.
RPC columns might be possible which could lead to an Foster, S. 1. and Attard, M. M. (2001). "Strength and
increase the speed of construction with an associated ductility of fiber-reinforced high-strength concrete
potential reduction in construction costs. More test data, columns." Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE,
however, is required to fully justify this conclusion. 127(1),28-34.
Using conventional approaches for determining the Liu, J., Foster, S. 1. and Attard, M. M. (2000). "Strength
axial force-bending moment interaction diagram gives of tied HSC columns loaded in concentric
conservative results for sections loaded with greater that compression." ACI Structural Journal, 97(1),
the minimum loading eccentricity. Due to flaws in the 149-156.
testing set-up for the concentrically loaded specimens, Paultre, P., Khayat, K. H., Langlois, A., Trudel, A. and
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squash load capacity. special concretes." Proceedings of the 4th
International Symposium on the Utilization of High
Acknowledgements Performance Concrete, Paris, France, May, 787-796.
This project was supported by Australian Research Richard, P. and Cheyrezy, M. H. (1994). "Reactive
Council (ARC) Discovery Grant. The support of the powder concretes with high ductility and 200-800
ARC is acknowledged with appreciation. MPa compressive strength." ACI, SP-144(24), San
Francisco, CA, 507-518.
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