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<doi>/ISEC.res.2017.195</doi>
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<article-title>EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SHEAR<br/>
PERFORMANCE OF COMPOSITE CONNECTOR<br/>
FOR PRECAST CONCRETE SANDWICH PANELS</article-title>
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<author>XIMEI ZHAI, WENJIAN YING, and WANG XUEMING</author>

<aff>School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China</aff>


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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>In order to ensure desirable overall performance between interior panel and exterior
panel for precast concrete sandwich panels, the shear performance of a new composite
connector is investigated in this paper through the experiment of shear specimens,
including 4 groups of bilateral shear test specimens and 8 groups of unilateral shear test
specimens. The connector’s shear capability and shear failure process phenomenon of
destruction of all specimens are obtained. Then the effect rule on shear performance of
connector from positional relation of connector and distribution reinforcement and
concrete strength are gained. The experimental results and analysis show that the shear
failure model is bending shear failure of connector’s reinforcing steel bar, which is
brittle failure; the measured value of shear force of experiment compared to the
measures values for the actual project, the new composite connector provides an
enough safety reserve; The relative position of connector and distribution
reinforcement and concrete strength have no influence on the ultimate bearing shear
capability; The shear performance of the new composite connector could satisfy the use
requirement of sandwich wall panels based on the text results. Furthermore, the
connectors perform superb anchoring bond and deformation capability. According to
the results and analysis, the new composite connector could be popularly used in
engineering practice.</p>
<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Overall performance, Shear specimens, Unilateral shear test, Bilateral shear
test, Shear failure, Engineering practice.</p>
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