Torsional Behavior Design of UHPC Box Beams Based on Thin-Walled Tube Theory.pdfVIP

Engineering, 2015, 7, 101-114 Published Online March 2015 in SciRes. /journal/eng /10.4236/eng.2015.73009 Torsional Behavior Design of UHPC Box Beams Based on Thin-Walled Tube Theory * Imjong Kwahk, Changbin Joh , Jung Woo Lee Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Goyang, South Korea * Email: kwakim@kict.re.kr, cjoh@kict.re.kr, duckhawk@kict.re.kr Received 28 February 2015; accepted 15 March 2015; published 18 March 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract This study proposed a prediction formula for the torsional strength enabling to reflect the tensile strength of ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) beams based upon the thin-walled tube theory. The remarkable ductile behavior of UHPC can also be attributed to the steel fiber rein- forcement. This feature must be considered to provide rational explanation of the torsional beha- vior of UHPC structures. In this study, the proposed torsional design adopts a modified thin-walled tube theory so as to consider the tensile behavior of UHPC. And torsion test was conducted on thin- walled UHPC box beams to validate the proposed formula through comparison of the predicted torsional strength with the experimental results. The comparison of the predicted values of the cracking torque and torsional moment resistance with those observed in the torsional test of UHPC verified the validity of the design method. The contribution of the ste