Abstract
Buckling of steel reinforcement usually causes a sudden loss of the load-carrying capacity and the ultimate state of conventional reinforced concrete (RC) cylinders. However, reinforcing bars behave differently in fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-confined RC cylinders due to the lateral confinement effect of FRP. This paper presents a theoretical study into the buckling behavior of longitudinal steel reinforcing bars embedded in FRP-confined concrete subjected to cyclic axial compression. An empirical monotonic compressive stress-strain model considering the buckling effects proposed previously for laterally supported reinforcing bars is extended to a cyclic model by combining the monotonic envelope and the Menegotto-Pinto model accounting for the cyclic loops. The cyclic stress-strain models for both laterally supported reinforcing bars and FRP-confined plain concrete are then implemented into the OpenSees software platform and validated through comparisons with compressive test results on cyclically loaded FRP-confined plain and RC cylinders. The proposed cyclic stress-strain model for laterally supported reinforcing bars is expected to serve as a fundamental model for predicting the seismic behavior of FRP-strengthened RC cylinders with widely-spaced transverse ties under cyclic axial compression, in which case the local buckling of reinforcing bars usually occurs between two adjacent transverse ties. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 54-66 |
Journal | Composite Structures |
Volume | 182 |
Online published | 14 Sept 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Dec 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
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The authors are grateful for the financial support received from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR (Project No. PolyU 152171/15E), the National Natural Science Fund of China (Grants Nos. 51408136 , 51678014 ), the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51421005 ), and the Research Grants from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2016M591035 ).
Research Keywords
- Bar buckling
- Cyclic model
- FRP confinement
- OpenSees
- Stress-strain model