Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
1-31-1989
Degree Name
Master of Science in Civil Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
First Advisor
C.T. Thomas Hsu
Second Advisor
M. Ala Saadeghvaziri
Third Advisor
Hsin Neng Hsieh
Abstract
The main objective of this thesis work is to study the steel-concrete interface behavior of reinforced concrete members using the nonlinear finite element method.
The reinforced concrete member was modeled as a continuum consisting of plane stress rectangular elements which represent the concrete, pin-joint two node bar elements which represent the reinforcing steel, and the nondimensional linkage elements which represent the bond stress-slip, aggregate interaction and dowel action effects. The load increment procedure is employed to carry out the nonlinear analysis.
An axially loaded tensile specimen, a deep beam specimen and a shallow beam specimen were analyzed. The results from the nonlinear computer analysis were compared with the experimental results. They show that the computer program developed has the capability to predict the theoretical analysis from the zero load up to the yielding of the steel reinforcement.
Recommended Citation
Wan, Jun, "Study of steel-concrete interface behavior of reinforced concrete members" (1989). Theses. 2941.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/2941
