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Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute

J Korea Inst. Struct. Maint. Insp.
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Title Evaluation of Minimum Spiral Reinforcement Ratio of Circular RC Columns
Authors 김영식(Young-Seek Kim) ; 김형국(Hyeong-Gook Kim) ; 박천범(Cheon-Beom Park) ; 김상우(Sang-Woo Kim) ; 김길희(Kil-Hee Kim)
DOI https://doi.org/10.11112/jksmi.2017.21.6.001
Page pp.1-9
ISSN 2234-6937
Keywords 나선철근 ; 철근비 ; 철근콘크리트 원형기둥 ; 횡구속 효과 Spiral reinforcement ; Volumetric ratio ; RC circular column ; Confinement effect
Abstract Spiral reinforcement in a circular column plays an effective role in the ductile behavior of a column through position fixing and buckling restraining of the longitudinal reinforcement, and confining core-concrete. Each country has suggested the minimum volumetric ratio of spiral reinforcement in order to secure the ductility of concrete columns. The minimum volumetric ratio of spiral reinforcement suggested by ACI 318-14 and the national concrete structure design standard was developed based on the theory of Richard et al. (1928); furthermore it has been used until now. However, their theory cannot consider the effects of high strength concrete and high strength reinforcement, and arrangement condition of the spiral reinforcement. In this study, a modified minimum volumetric ratio equation is suggested, which is required to improve the ductility of reinforced concrete circular columns and to recover their stress. The modified minimum volumetric ratio equation suggested here considers the effect of the compressive strength of concrete, the yield strength of spiral reinforcement, the cross sectional area of columns, the pitch of spiral reinforcements and the diameter of spiral reinforcement. In this paper, the validity of the minimum volumetric ratios from ACI 318-14 and this study was investigated and compared based on the results of uniaxial compression experiment for specimens in which the material strength and the spiral reinforcements ratio were used as variables. In the end of the study, the modification method for the suggested equation was examined.