Ultimate strength of reinforce concrete shear walls under multi-axes seismic loads

In this thesis we look at one of the aging mechanisms that may have affected current aged Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). Irradiation as an age-related degradation mechanism is studied for Reinforced Concrete (RC) in NPPs. This problem can be important for aged reactor buildings, radwaste buildings, spent nuclear fuel, research reactors, or accelerators that experience high levels of radiation close to existing thresholds. Mechanical properties of concrete are the most important parameters affected by radiation in NPPs. Compressive strength of concrete is reduced between 80 and 35 % for radiation fluences between 2×1019 and 2×1021n/cm2. Tensile strength reduction is more significant than compressive strength. It is reduced between 20 and 80 % for a radiation fluence equal to 5×1019. We chose three radiation levels 2 × 10, 2 × 10, 2 × 10 based on experimental results as the critical levels of radiation that RC structures in NPPs may be exposed to. Structures susceptible to the problem are mostly RC walls; so the RC panel is chosen as an appropriate representative scale element for the analysis. The effect of radiation on mechanical properties of concrete is considered to analyze degraded scale elements. Material properties, geometry, and loading scenarios of scale elements are selected to be close to actual quantities in existing nuclear power plant. Elements are analyzed under six types of loading combination of shear and axial loading conditions. A nonlinear finite element program, Membrane-2000, based on the Modified Compression Field Theory (MCFT) is used to solve scale elements numerically. Element behaviors are studied considering the factors influence ultimate strength capacity, failure mode, and structural ductility index of members. The results show that ultimate shear capacity of the elements subjected to combinations of shear and tension loading are reduced significantly for highly reinforced elements (1.35 < ρ < 1.88) in 2× 10n/cm radiation. RC panels under shear-biaxial and uniaxial compression also show significant strength capacity reduction in radiation levels 2×1020n/cm2 and 2×1021n/cm2, respectively. Failure modes of the elements change from yielding of steel to shear failure by increasing level of degradation for the elements with reinforcement ratio between 0.9 and 1.88. Ductility of the RC panels is reduced significantly in the critical levels of radiation. Ductility of the elements became less than the allowable ductility value by increasing level of radiation.

The Effects of Nuclear Radiation on Aging Reinforced Concrete Structures in Nuclear Power Plants

In this study, we made examinations by means of experimental and analytical methods for the purpose of grasping the shear characteristics of RC walls with corroded reinforcement and verified the validity of analytical models and constitutive laws by making comparisons between the analysis results and the test results. First of all, we conducted two kinds of element tests on the bond strength of reinforcement greatly affected by corroded reinforcement and tension stiffening of concrete around the reinforcement. Regardless of the diameter of the reinforcement, we found that the bond strength could be assessed using past equations and, for tension stiffening, proposed an equation in consideration of the effect of corrosion weight loss by obtaining data of constitutive laws for FEM analyses. Then, we conducted in-plane shearing tests on the RC walls with corroded reinforcement and found that the effect of the corrosion weight loss of reinforcement on the shear strength of the walls was low. Finally, we found that the analyses almost follow the test results through FEM analyses of the RC shear walls with corroded reinforcement using the constitutive laws obtained through element tests and past constitutive laws.

Experimental and Analytical Study of Structural Performance of RC Shear Walls with Corroded Reinforcement

Constitutive model of shear transfer for pre-cracked rc plate subjected to combined axial and shear stress

Shear transfer constitutive model for pre-cracked RC plate subjected to combined axial and shear stress

Shear Behavior of Pre-Cracked RC Plates Subjected to Combined Axial and Shear Stress

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Constitutive model of shear transfer for pre-cracked rc plate subjected to combined axial and shear stress

Shear transfer constitutive model for pre-cracked RC plate subjected to combined axial and shear stress

Shear Behavior of Pre-Cracked RC Plates Subjected to Combined Axial and Shear Stress