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ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 73
PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper 54
Effects of Torsion on the Flexural Stiffness of the Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Sections M.J. Fadaee and M. Banihashemi
Department of Civil Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M.J. Fadaee, M. Banihashemi, "Effects of Torsion on the Flexural Stiffness of the Rectangular Reinforced Concrete Sections", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 54, 2001. doi:10.4203/ccp.73.54
Keywords: bending moment, torsion, stiffness, reinforced concrete.
Summary
In recent years, much progress has been achieved in research on the behaviour of
the reinforced concrete (RC) sections subjected to pure torsion. The proposed
theories correspond experimental results very well, and hopefully, uniform codes for
torsion can be available in near future, the same as what are now available for pure
bending. There are many works in the literature investigating the behaviour of RC
sections under combined actions (combination of axial force, bending moment and
torsion) based upon truss theory. However, in different theories the angle of struts is
assumed to have different values along the concrete member. By introducing the
compression field theory and discovering the "softening phenomenon" the most
important difficulties for finding the results more corresponding to the experimental
results were dissolved. The modified compression field theory is known as
"diagonal compression field theory" which is used for analysing the reinforced
concrete sections subjected to combined loadings.
In diagonal compression field theory, a RC section under combined actions is
converted to a hollow thin-walled section. Any thin wall of the section is divided
into several elements. For each element the concrete surface strain, the steel bar
strain and the strut angle are different from the corresponding values for the other
elements. So, three variables are considered for each element. If
In this paper, a progressive algorithm is presented for finding the response of the
section under combined loadings. In the proposed method, it is proven that for
finding the response of the section under combined loadings, there are always two
independent variables and the other variables can be related to these two variables.
In this method the procedure of finding the section response is done inversely. In the
usual methods for solving the set of non-linear equations, the section actions are
known while the bending curvature of the section,
Adopting a constant value for
At the end of the paper, the method is applied for an example section and the
results are summarized in a table. Using the table the The proposed method gives the section response more accurately in comparison to the method based upon solving the set of non-linear equations. Moreover, in the proposed method there is no need to start from a point close to the true answer regarding the independent variables and, therefore, the answers are obtained much faster. References
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