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Models of the flexure-controlled strength, stiffness and cyclic deformation capacity of rectangular RC columns with smooth bars, including lap-splicing and FRP jackets

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Cyclic tests of single concrete columns with smooth (plain) bars are not representative of building columns with lap splices at floor levels and story-long starter bars. Column specimens with fixity at top and bottom resemble building columns best, but few of those tested so far had smooth bars and even then without bar lap-splicing at floor level or FRP jackets at column ends. Empirical models based on single-column tests, especially the numerous ones with cantilever-type specimens, cannot be readily extended to columns with smooth bars in real-life buildings. Physical models of the Strut-and-Tie type are developed and are validated or calibrated through comparisons with laboratory tests. Their scope includes anchorage and splicing of bars with either 180° hooks or straight ends. Once validated, they are adapted to real-life multistory rectangular RC columns with smooth bars, in order to obtain the column properties of interest: the chord rotation at yielding and the cyclic ultimate chord rotation, with or without FRP jacketing. Different expressions apply to the top and bottom end of a column in a story, but a single one is used to estimate the column’s effective stiffness. Empirical alternatives fitted to the single-element test results have slightly less scatter than physical models, but caution is needed for their application to columns of real buildings. Simulations of the 3D seismic response of a plan wise asymmetric full size building, tested pseudo-dynamically before or after retrofitting all columns with FRPs or just two of them with RC jackets, provide certain confidence in the extension of the physical models for the estimation of the stiffness and ultimate deformation of columns with smooth bars in real-life buildings.

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The research leading to these results received funding from the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, through Grant ERC-12 of the Operational Program “Education and lifelong learning”, co-funded by the European Union (European Social Fund) and national resources.

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    Sofia Grammatikou, Michael N. Fardis & Dionysis Biskinis

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Grammatikou, S., Fardis, M.N. & Biskinis, D. Models of the flexure-controlled strength, stiffness and cyclic deformation capacity of rectangular RC columns with smooth bars, including lap-splicing and FRP jackets. Bull Earthquake Eng 16, 341–375 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-017-0202-y

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