Grout effect on the behaviour of the anchor shear connection

Prefabricated construction and requirements for reusing the particular structural element, request the application of a support joint realized with anchors. Besides demountability, the connection detail realized with anchors needs to satisfy all support conditions adopted during the structure design. This paper describes the behaviour of anchor shear connection. The connection slip was analysed concerning the grout material properties and the grout thickness. The parametric study was performed using Abaqus software to define the relationship between grout properties and thickness and the slip deformation for load levels corresponding to serviceability limit states.