1. Experimental study on shear behavior of BFRP-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete deep beams without stirrups.
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Liu, Hua-Xin, Yang, Jian-Wei, Wang, Xue-Zhi, and Han, Ding-Jie
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This paper describes an experimental investigation to evaluate the shear performance of basalt Fiber-reinforced Polymer (BFRP)-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete deep beams without stirrups. A total of 13 beams were tested under four-point loading until failure: nine were reinforced with BFRP bars, and four were reinforced with steel bars. The parameters of this experiment included the shear-span-to-depth ratio ( a/ d), reinforcement ratio of the longitudinal bar ( ρ), sectional effective depth ( d) and compressive strength of the recycled concrete ( f ′). The shear behavior of the beams was described in terms of the crack type, failure mode, shear strength and load-deformation relationship. The effects of the experimental variables on shear capacities and deflections of the tested beams were also investigated. The experimental results showed that the shear capacity of BFRP-reinforced beams was smaller than that of steel-reinforced beams. Additionally, the deformation of BFRP-reinforced beams was larger than that of steel-reinforced ones. The shear capacity of BFRP-reinforced recycled concrete beams without stirrups showed a linear relationship with the sectional effective depth d and was proportional to ( d/ a), ( ρ) and ( f ′). Meanwhile, four existing codes were used to predict the shear strength of test beams and the CSA806-02 gave the better results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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