EURO MED SEC 03


BEHAVIOR OF HIGH STRENGTH FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE SQUARE COLUMNS WITH HYBRID BARS

SAAD AL-TAAN, ABDULJALIL ALDOSKI


Abstract

The paper presents test results on 20 high-strength fiber reinforced concrete square columns subjected to concentric and eccentric loading. The study aim was to examine the effect of the weight of steel fibers on the strength and behavior of HSC columns under concentric and eccentric loading. All columns were longitudinally reinforced with 4 GFRP bars 6 mm diameter, and two steel bars 10 mm diameter, making the reinforcement ratio (ρg = 0.0181), and steel ties at 64 mm spacing. The studied test variables included the steel fiber weight ratio and the eccentricity. To prevent premature spalling in the concrete cover, it was discovered that it helps to add steel fibers to HSC mixtures in concrete columns. In addition, this also increases the strength of eccentrically loaded reinforced columns compared to that for concentrically loaded columns. The strength and behavior were predicted also by the proposed method. The predicted and the experimental results found to be in a good agreement.

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