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Title |
Analytical Study on the fatigue Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers under Earthquake
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Keywords |
피로거동; 철근콘크리트 교각; 분산균열; 경계면 요소; 하중재하 회수; fatigue behavior; reinforced concrete bridge piers; smeared crack interface element; toad reversals |
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Abstract |
This paper presents an analytical prediction of the fatigue behavior of reinforced concrete bridge piers under earthquake. Material nonlinearity is taken into account by comprising tensile, compressive and shear models of cracked concrete and a model of reinforcing steel. The smeared crack approach is incorporated. In boundary plane at which each member with different thickness is connected, local discontinuous deformation due to the abrupt change in their stiffness can be taken into account by introducing interface element. The effect of number of load reversals with the same displacement amplitude has been also taken into account to model the reinforcing steel. The proposed numerical method for fatigue behavior of reinforced concrete bridge piers under earthquake will be verified by comparison with reliable experimental results.
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