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The design of coupling or “link” beams connecting structural walls in earthquake-resistant construction requires the use of intricate diagonal and transverse reinforcement detailing to ensure adequate strength, stiffness and energy dissipation during an earthquake event. The tensile strain-hardening behavior exhibited by high-performance fiber reinforced concretes (HPFRCs), along with their compression behavior that resembles that of well-confined concrete, led the senior writers to consider their use as a means to simplify the required reinforcement detailing in coupling beams, while leading to comparable or even enhanced seismic performance. Short coupling beams with a span-to-depth ratio (ℓ n /h) of 1.0 were first investigated. Test results showed that HPFRC provides confinement to the diagonal reinforcement and increases coupling beam shear strength and drift capacity. This allows for a substantial reduction in both diagonal and confinement reinforcement without compromising deformation capacity. A follow-up study on coupling beams with ℓ n /h = 1.75 showed that a ductile flexural mechanism with high damage tolerance can be achieved through the use of HPFRC. A precast scheme with a short embedment length was shown to effectively anchor the beam into the wall without interfering with the wall reinforcement. Also, an HPFRC mixture with high-strength (2300 MPa) hooked steel fibers in a 1.5% volume fraction was found to be the most promising in terms of structural performance, economy and ease of construction. In order to cover the range of ℓ n /h ratios common in practice, additional studies were conducted on more slender coupling beams, with ℓ n /h = 2.75 and 3.3. It was shown that slender precast HPFRC coupling beams can develop a high drift capacity and damage tolerance, even when diagonal reinforcement is eliminated. The results from this work thus provide structural engineers and contractors a viable design alternative for use in earthquake-resistant coupled wall construction.
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Parra-Montesinos, G.J., Wight, J.K., Lequesne, R.D., Setkit, M. (2012). A Summary of Ten Years of Research on HPFRC Coupling Beams. In: Parra-Montesinos, G.J., Reinhardt, H.W., Naaman, A.E. (eds) High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cement Composites 6. RILEM State of the Art Reports, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2436-5_43
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