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Title |
Characteristics of Structural Behavior of Steel Fiber Reinforced Ultra High Performance Concrete Beams Subjected to Torsion
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.4334/JKCI.2014.26.1.087 |
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Keywords |
초고성능 콘크리트 ; 비틀림 강도 ; 강섬유 ; 폐쇄스터럽 ; 균열 ultra high performance concrete ; torsional strength ; steel fiber ; closed stirrups ; crack |
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Abstract |
Experimental investigation on the structural behavior of steel fiber-reinforced ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) beams subjected to torsion are presented. Six tests carried out on square beams under torsional moment are presented. The experimental parameters were the volume fraction of the fibers and closed-stirrup ratio. The volume fraction of the fibers was 1.0% and 2.0%. The closed-stirrup ratio was 0, 0.35%, and 0.70%. The test results indicated that ultimate torsional strength increased with increasing fiber volume, and that ultimate torsional strength also increased with increasing the closed-stirrup ratio. In addition, predictive equations for evaluating the ultimate torsional strength of UHPC beams were proposed. The comparison between computed values and the experimentally observed values was shown to validate the proposed analytical equations. It was found that predictions by using proposed equation provides good agreement with test results of UHPC beams.
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