Behavior and Design of Cast.ppt

Chadd Lane Jian Zhao Assistant Professor WisCamp Undergraduate Research Summer 2009 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Motivation: Structural safety Cracks in the cement, broken anchors, or shifting of the beams. Maximize structural safety Saving time and money Behavior of anchor connections Concrete cracking in tension Current design regulations Limited guidance How does one maximize structural safety with the number of anchors, anchor design, and location? How does one disperse the weight of a large beam evenly among all the anchors? Concrete Spall Cone— Steel Breakage— Anchor Pullout— Bond Failure— Edge Distance and Spacing Reduction— Spalled concrete— split, chip, or to break into smaller pieces A material can be loaded in: a) compression b) tension c) shear Computer simulation failure rate of cement and anchors Real life seismic loading simulation. Confirm computer simulations How the cement and anchors should look when they fail. Understand the full nature of cement and anchors. Calculations How to disperse the weight of the large beam evenly amongst all anchors evenly One of the anchor bolts was fractured The other bent under a combined tension and shear action. The top layer of concrete spalled such that the hairpin, with an intention to help the anchor connection to resist shear, was displaced outside the anchor connection. Note that the failure of the anchor connection might have contributed to the total collapse of the industrial building. The experimental tests include the ongoing single-anchor tests at UWM and the anchor group tests (to be conducted at Illinois in 2010). Anchors in every test group are subjected to these loadings: tension and shear The loading frame shown right are set for the various loading patterns. Meanwhile /watch?v=3z4YLUqOysI The anchor position is chosen to enable concrete breakout failure. The same configurations will be cast and tested with various a