采用钢管加强的桥墩在横向力作用下的有限元分析.pdfVIP

The 12th International Symposium on Structural Engineering FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF STEEL TUBE STRENGTHENED DAMAGED BRIDGE PIERS UNDER LATERAL LOADS Xueqiong Li, Jun Deng School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, P.R.China Abstract: The seismic loads can induce large moments and lateral forces to the columns of bridges. The lateral cyclic earthquake force will degrade the concrete and the reinforcing steel bar instantaneously, and the reinforced concrete columns will fail prematurely. The bridge pier damaged during earthquakes need be repaired to meet the design standards. The shear forces in the original columns are resisted mainly by the lateral reinforcement. As an alternative, steel tube jacketed the damaged columns has been used to retrofit the bridge columns. In this paper, finite-element (FE) method was used to set up a model to calculate the hysteretic behaviour of steel tube strengthened damaged reinforced concrete beams under lateral loads. Convergence analysis also used to improve the result. The general purpose software package ANSYS was used. A nonlinear 3-D FE Model was established. Comparing the FE results of damaged columns and retrofitted damaged columns indicates that: (1) Steel tube jacketing is very efficient to increase the strength and ductility of the damaged columns; (2) The retrofitted columns meet the requirements of the design standards and can be reused safely. Keywords: Bridge pier, seismic load, hysteretic behavior, steel tube 1 INTRODUCTION jacketed the damaged columns. This paper studies on the hysteretic behavior