STENGTH EVALUATION OF NOTCHED

PLAIN CONCRETE BEAM UNDER STATIC

LOAD
Presented By: Deben Kumar Behera (Regd no.-1561031003)
M-Tech (Structural Engg-2015-17)
Dept. Of Civil Engg.
ITER, SOA University
Under supervision of: Swetapadma Panda (Asst. Prof.)
 INTRODUCTION

Cracks in structures are common occurrence. Structural

component develops cracks whenever stress in the component
exceeds its strength. Stress in a structural component could be
caused by externally applied forces, such as dead, live, wind
or seismic loads, or foundation settlement or it could be
induced internally due to thermal movements, moisture
changes, chemical action, etc. Crack could be broadly
classified as structural or non-structural.
Cont..
Modes of Crack
 OBJECTIVE
The main objective of the present work is to study the effect of material
properties on the failure of notched concrete beam samples(Type I) under
three point bending test.

In addition, load-displacement and load-crack mouth opening

displacement (CMOD) plots will be obtained experimentally and will be
correlated with numerical results.

Numerical included two-dimensional modeling of the beam under three

point bending test using finite element method with the software ANSYS.

3-sets of (each 5) notched beam specimen of 3 different sizes are taken to

study the fracture behavior and to obtain the following parameters :
Cont..
Deflection

Strain

Ultimate Load At Failure

CMOD (Crack Mouth Opening Displacement)

Flexural Strength
 INTRODUCTION TO FEM
The past decades have shown a significant progress in the numerical modeling of
concrete failure. This is typically the case where concrete is considered as a quasi-
brittle material in which crack plays a dominant role because concrete does not
have the yield behavior. When a crack length reaches a certain critical length, it
can propagate, even though the average stress is much less than tensile strength of
the tests specimen.

Crack analysis of notched concrete beam to find the quantitative relation between
crack length, materials resistance to crack growth, and the stress at which cracks
starts to propagate.

Why crack analysis in concrete

Formation of cracks require a certain amount of energy, which agrees with the
fracture mechanics concept.
Cont..

Finite element analysis provides an efficient tool that can

simulate and predict the response of cracked material of plane
or reinforced concrete members.

After all a failure of concrete members can be tackled by

crack analysis.
 MATERIAL
Plain cement concrete beams are taken for the present study,
so materials used :

Cement : Ordinary Portland Cement

Coarse Aggregate : Maximum size as 20 mm
Fine Aggregate : Sand obtained from local river beds
Ply : BWP Grade (ISI 710)Thickness 19 mm
Water : Ordinary portable water.
Mix Adopted : A concrete mix of 1:1.5:3 by weight(M20)
 SPECIMEN
Geometry
b

h
D4da
a0=0.4D

n05mm B4da
L3.5D

Specimen dimension were taken according to IS: SP 25 and JCI-S-001-

2003
Cont..
Specimens shall be beams of rectangular cross section with a
notch at the mid-length to a depth of 0.4 times the beam depth.

The width of the cross section (D) of the specimen shall be not
less than 4 times the maximum aggregate size (d a) .

Theloading span (s) shall be 3D. The total length of the

specimen (L) shall be not less than 3.5D.

The
notch depth (a0) and notch width (n0) shall be 0.4D and not
more than 5mm, respectively.
 APPARATUS
3-Point Loading Bending Test Setup:
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LVDT (Linear Variable Displacement Transducer)

www.vanotools.com
 Test Specimens
A total 30 beams are casted for testing with following
dimensions
SET :A(Solid Beam)
1st set 1000 mm * 150 mm * 150 mm
2nd set 700mm * 150 mm * 150 mm
3rd set 500mm * 100 mm * 100 mm

SET :B(Notched Beam)

1st set 1000 mm * 150 mm * 150 mm
2nd set 700mm * 150 mm * 150 mm
3rd set 500mm * 100 mm * 100 mm
 LITRETURE REVIEW
Year of Title Author Journal Description of the
Publication work
Fracture Analysis Jian-Jun JEM In this paper the author has
of FRP-Plated Jan-Guo Vol:1, Page:1 taken rectangular beam
Notched Concrete samples with and without
FRP Plated. The samples
2015 Beams Subjected were tested under 3-point
to Three-Point bending machine to get
Bending results of load vs CMOD
and crack propagation.

Fracture N.Ganesan AJCE Here the author has taken

Properties Of Ruby Abraham rectangular beam sample
2014 Geo-polymer with varying notched depth
and conducted both
Concrete experimental numerical
analysis. He has again taken
geo-polymer concrete
samples to validate the
results with the parameter as
deflection and CMOD
calculation
 Year of Title Author Journal Description of the
Publication work
Fracture behavior of plain B.K Raghu ICCES Here the author has taken
concrete beams- Prasad Vol:14 15 nos. of pcc rectangular
2010 experimental verification Rabindra Page:65 samples of different
of one parameter model sizes.3-point bending test
Kumar Saha
is carried out for the beams
to get the result of load vs
deflection & load vs
CMOD.

Numerical modeling and Gospodin UACEG In his paper, he has

1998 analysis of plain concrete Gospodinov Vol:xl conducted both
notched beams by means Irina Page:2 experimental &
of fracture mechanics computational analysis of
Kerelezova
notched rectangular
concrete beam and validate
the results by taking the
parameters load vs
deflection and crack
propagation