Beta
86146

Structure Behavior of Beams Combining Ultra High Strength Concrete and Normal Strength Concrete

Article

Last updated: 25 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

The concept of "Composite structures or partial elements" was mainly carried out from an economical point view. The basic idea for using the composite elements is combining the Normal strength concrete and Ultra High Strength concrete (UHSC) or any recent advanced cementitious material in composite structures in order to exploit the advantages of the two materials in an optimal way. Ultra-high Strength concrete (UHSC) which was used in this research have exceptional material properties, however, their material costs are significantly higher than those of normal strength concretes. It is defined as a concrete which is meeting special combinations of performance and uniformity requirements that cannot always be achieved routinely using conventional constituent materials and normal mixing, placing, and curing practices,(ACI Committee 116). UHSC is characterized by extraordinary mechanical properties and durability properties. The UHSC-Matrix is very brittle material behavior. In this research an experimental program is being carried out to study the behavior of UHSC beams and composite beams using UHSC (141MPa) and Normal strength concrete with studying the effect of different parameters tested under static loads. This program mainly aims to reach to the optimum thickness of ultra-high strength concrete layer in the composite beams, it also  aims to make a  validation for using  the Egyptian code equation for the maximum reinforcement ratio of longitudinal steel in UHSC and composite beams. This paper presents the results of this experimental program, which consists of ten reinforced concrete beams. The main parameters of this program were: longitudinal reinforcement ratio, the type of used concrete and the thickness of UHSC layer. Particular attention is paid to the effect of each variable on the strength enhancement, stiffness degradation, toughness and ductility of the tested beams. Valuable conclusions were obtained from the research results which stated that; in case of high reinforcement steel ratios the optimum thickness of UHSC in the concrete beams cross section should be not less than the third of the cross section depth only in order to achieve the economic point of view. 

DOI

10.21608/idj.2018.86146

Keywords

Ultra High Strength Concrete, Composite, Normal strength concrete, Beams, Flexural behavior

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Ismail

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Ph.D. student, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University

Email

-

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

EL- Attar

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Professor, Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hossam

Last Name

El-Karmoty

MiddleName

Z.

Affiliation

Professor, Housing and Building National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

Volume

8

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

12191

Issue Date

2018-04-01

Receive Date

2018-02-12

Publish Date

2018-04-01

Page Start

455

Page End

468

Print ISSN

2090-9632

Online ISSN

2090-9640

Link

https://idj.journals.ekb.eg/article_86146.html

Detail API

https://idj.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=86146

Order

41

Type

Original Article

Type Code

1,217

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

International Design Journal

Publication Link

https://idj.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Structure Behavior of Beams Combining Ultra High Strength Concrete and Normal Strength Concrete

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023