Finite Element Modelling of Laboratory Tests on Reinforced Concrete Beams Containing Recycled Aggregate Concrete

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Department of Civil Engineering, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India

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The predictive accuracy of the finite element (FE) based packages are broadly based on the compatibility of adopted non-linear numerical procedures and incorporated material models. However, the routine way to define concrete material is not applicable to the concretes containing substitute materials in place of conventional concrete ingredients. Therefore, in this work, appropriate definition of materials in terms of stress-strain relations have been utilized to simulate the experimental work of RC beams containing coarser fractions of recycled concrete aggregates (RCA). The entire work has been carried out into two phases; an experimental work and the simulation of experimental work using FEA package, ABAQUS. In the experimental part, three number of full-scaled beam specimens were tested to failure through four-point monotonous loading. The replacement level of natural coarse aggregates was taken as 0.0, 50 and 100% by direct substitution. In the simulation phase, in addition to laboratory evaluated properties like compressive stress, tensile stress and elastic modulus, the measured stress-strain relationship for reinforcing steel and constitutive relationship for recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) reported in the literature have been considered as an input. The stress-strain relationships of RAC selected from the literature has been treated as user defined model. Besides the strength, serviceability in terms of deflections, crack patterns and load deformation characteristics of simulated beams have been investigated and compared with those of laboratory tested beam specimens.

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International Journal of Engineering
Volume 36, Issue 5
TRANSACTIONS B: Applications
May 2023
Pages 991-999

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