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Seismic Behavior of Prefabricated Pier Models Connected by Grouting Sleeves Based on Shaking Table Test

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Grouted sleeve connections have the advantage of being easy to mass produce and construct. Therefore, the use of grouted sleeve connections is still a widespread choice for prefabricated piers. However, there were relatively few studies on the seismic performance of such connected piers. In this paper, four types of piers were designed and fabricated at a scale of 1:4. This included two prefabricated piers with different sleeve locations, i.e., sleeve placed in pier column (SPP) and sleeve placed in cap (SPC). One prefabricated pier with external steel plate (ESP) and one cast-in-place (CIP) pier. Shake table tests were conducted to investigate the dynamic and seismic performance of prefabricated bridge piers. The study includes damage development phenomenon, self-vibration characteristics, seismic performance, and ductility of bridge pier. And the design parameters of prefabricated piers were compared and analyzed by finite element. The results showed that the conditions between the sleeve existed in pier column and steel plate wrapped pier column, which were found to have a greater impact on the damage mode of the piers. Both SPC piers and CIP piers showed cracks at the bottom of the piers first. The locations of the first cracks in the SPP and ESP piers were approximately 280 mm and 500 mm from the bottom of the piers, respectively. The cracks then continued to develop forming the cracked-intensive area. The crack-intensive area of the prefabricated piers was located in the stiffness change section. Combined with data response, the seismic performance of the three prefabricated piers was better than that of the CIP pier, among which the ESP pier was the best. It was found that the SPP and CIP piers had higher ductility, reducing the ductility coefficient by 26.97% and 19.21%, respectively, compared to the ESP pier. The finite element results had shown that the counterweight size had a large effect on the seismic performance, and the depth of steel insertion had no effect. All the above results indicated that the use of external steel plates could improve the seismic performance of prefabricated piers.

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Abbreviations

\(a\) :

Dynamic amplification factor

\(A_{i0}\) :

Maximum acceleration response at the bottom of the pier at a certain moment

\(A_{i1}\) :

Maximum acceleration response at the top of the pier at a certain moment

\(A_{s}\) :

Area of longitudinal reinforcement

\(A_{sv}\) :

Area of hoop reinforcement

c :

Member model symbol

\(D\) :

Spiral hoop spacing

\(f_{0}\) :

Natural frequency before seismic load loading

\(f_{i}\) :

Natural frequency after a certain loading condition

\(f_{y}\) :

Yield strength of longitudinal reinforcement

\(f_{yv}\) :

Yield strength of spiral hoop

\(h_{0}\) :

Effective height of the section

\(k\) :

Structural stiffness

\(L\) :

Number of moments experienced by the measurement points

\(m\) :

Structural quality

\(M\) :

Structural bending moment

\(N\) :

Sum of actual and virtual measurement points

p :

Prototype structure symbol

s :

Similarity constant

\(T_{0}\) :

Natural vibration period before seismic load loading

\(T_{i}\) :

Natural vibration period after a certain loading condition

\(V_{n}\) :

Eigenvalues in NExT-ITD method

\(\left[ X \right]\) :

Free decay response matrix

\(\delta_{i}\) :

Maximum displacement under a certain seismic intensity condition

\(\delta_{y}\) :

Yield displacement

\(\mu\) :

Displacement ductility coefficient

\(\left[ \Phi \right]\) :

Eigenvector matrix

\(\left[ \Lambda \right]\) :

Matrix of the roots

\(\phi_{n}\) :

Structural vibration type

\(\omega_{n}\) :

Structure frequency

\(\xi_{n}\) :

Damping ratio

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The authors acknowledge financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (No. E2017003) and the Scientific Research Project of Capital Engineering and Research Incorporation Limited (No. 01-20090230-286-304369).

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  3. School of Civil Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, China

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Wang, C., Jia, Y. & Liang, D. Seismic Behavior of Prefabricated Pier Models Connected by Grouting Sleeves Based on Shaking Table Test. Int J Civ Eng 21, 1611–1629 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40999-023-00843-3

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