Cyclic Response Of Beam Column Joints Strengthened With Superelastic Shape Memory Alloys (Smas)
Mohammed H. Baluch , Muhammad Kalimur Rahman, محمد أجمل
كلية الهندسة-جامعة الملك فهد للبترول والمعادن · السعودية
Recent destructive earthquake such as the Hanshin earthquake (1995) in Japan, the Kocaeli (Izmit) earthquake (1999) in Turkey, the Kashmir earthquake (2005) in Pakistan, the Sichuan earthquake (2008) in China, the Chile earthquake (2010) in Chile, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami (2011) in Japan and the Gorkha earthquake (2015) in Nepal have shown deficiency in structures which resulted in major loss of human lives and economy. Most of these structures were poorly designed with no seismic detailing. It has been observed in many reinforced concrete structures, structural failure could be due to insufficient seismic detailing in columns, load bearing walls and beam-column joints which causes major destruction.Reinforced concrete (RC) buildings constructed in 1980’s were designed mostly for gravity loads without seismic detailing. Such structures are extensively available worldwide in seismic prone regions. The major components of the reinforced structures which plays an important role in integrating the system and overall stability are beam-column joints (BCJs).One of the greatest motivation for this study is to use smart material in the reinforced concrete structures. In this study, beam-column joints with lack of seismic detailing have been studied experimentally and numerically using ABAQUS FEM software. Seven specimens were tested which includes 3 control specimens and 4 retrofitted specimens using shape memory alloys (SMAs) sheets under monotonic, cyclic and reverse cyclic loading. The experimental results showed that SMAs sheets enhanced the ultimate load carrying capacity for retrofitted specimens as well as increased the residual load carrying capacity. Control cracking and reduced number of cracks were observed with the usage of SMAs sheets in the joint region as compared to the control specimens where number of cracks were more. SMAs sheets also reduced the crack widths in the joint region upon unloading which was not observed in the case of control specimens which is good sign for post rehabilitation of RC structures.Numerical simulations were also done for control and retrofitted specimens. User-defined subroutine VUMAT was utilized to model the material behavior of SMAs sheets and elasto-plastic damage model was utilized for concrete. The load-deflection curves, stresses in SMAs sheets and cracks pattern showed good agreement with experimental results. Mechanistic model for determining the shear strength of SMAs sheet retrofitted specimen was also developed using concept of truss analogy which predicted close results to the experimental study.