Abstract
The definite trend towards the use of large-diameter rebars and the introduction of high-strength steels (f y=500 to 600 MPa) make it necessary to study the effects of longitudinal splitting on the steel-to-concrete bond. The study of splitting effects requires firstly basic tests to be performed in order to gather experimental information on bond and confinement stresses acting at the bar-to-concrete interface. For this purpose, three series of tests were recently carried out at the Politecnico di Milano. The results make it possible to ascertain a few basic properties of the bond after concrete splitting, and to formulate empirical constitutive laws regarding the stresses and the displacements (bar slip and opening of the splitting crack). All specimens consisted of a short deformed bar embedded in a concrete block, which had a preformed splitting crack in the plane passing through the bar axis: twelve specimens (Tests A and C) were fitted up with a round deformed bar having crescent-shaped lugs (Db=18 mm); seven specimens (Tests B) were fitted up with a specially machined deformed bar having a rectangular cross-section and straigth, lugs, so that concrete deterioration close to the bar could be investigated at the surface of the specimen, by means of the moiré technique. The tests were carried out at constant slip rate, up to very large slip values (\({{\delta _{t_{max} } } \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\delta _{t_{max} } } {D_b = 0.25 to 0.30}}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {D_b = 0.25 to 0.30}}\)); both the ascending and the descending branches of the stress-slip curves were measured, for four different values of the opening of the splitting crack. The agreement among the results of the three series is generally satisfactory and often very good: consequently, constitutive laws regarding the four main variables (crack opening and bar slip, shear and confinement stresses) can be worked out, as will be shown in a companion paper on constitutive relationships and on concrete deterioration at the bar-to-concrete interface.
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Abbreviations
- D b, Es, fy :
-
Diameter, Young's modulus and yield stress of the reinforcing bar
- D *b , E *s , f *y :
-
Diameter, Young's modulus and yield stress of the confinement rods
- f 'c , fct :
-
Concrete cylindrical strength in compression and in tension
- f R :
-
Bond index of the reinforcing bar
- L :
-
Bonded length of the reinforcing bar
- N=N i−Ns :
-
Confinement force
- N i, Ns :
-
Confinement forces exerted by the lower rods (always in tension) and by the upper rods (always in compression except at the beginning of the loading process)
- V :
-
Force applied to the reinforcing bar
- δn, δ αn :
-
Nominal opening and initial opening of the preformed splitting crack
- δt, δ ot :
-
Bar slip and initial ‘free’ slip
- δ *t δt-δ ot :
-
Reduced bar slip (bond stress curves)
- Δδt :
-
Confinement lag
- σ:
-
Confinement stress
- τ:
-
Bond stress
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Gambarova, P.G., Rosati, G.P. & Zasso, B. Steel-to-concrete bond after concrete splitting: test results. Materials and Structures 22, 35–47 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02472693
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