ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CONCRETE ABSTRACTS PORTAL

  • The International Concrete Abstracts Portal is an ACI led collaboration with leading technical organizations from within the international concrete industry and offers the most comprehensive collection of published concrete abstracts.

International Concrete Abstracts Portal

  


Title: Effect of Limited Tension Stiffening on Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Panels in Shear

Author(s): Xueying Wang and J. S. Kuang

Publication: Structural Journal

Volume: 116

Issue: 2

Appears on pages(s): 147-157

Keywords: iterative root-finding technique; reinforced concrete membrane element; shear; tension stiffening; tension-stiffening fixed-angle truss model

DOI: 10.14359/51711140

Date: 3/1/2019

Abstract:
The principal tensile strength of cracked concrete is not well defined in existing models for predicting the shear response of reinforced concrete (RC) membrane elements; hence, the shear strength of RC elements is generally overestimated due to the unrealistic decreasing slope of tensile stress as the crack accumulates. In this paper, the effect of limited tension-stiffening behavior of cracked RC panels under pure shear stresses is investigated by proposing an analytical model named as the tension-stiffening fixed-angle truss model (TFTM). The proposed model includes the limited tension-stiffening effect of post-cracking reinforced concrete and adopts the fixed-angle theory. In the analysis of TFTM, an iterative root-finding technique and a search method genetic algorithm are applied for solving the stress-strain relationship. The limited tension-stiffening effect on RC panels is examined with a series of tests. Predictions by the proposed model show very good agreement with experimental results, and the elapsed time for each calculation loop is reduced significantly.