seismic performance comparison of a high-content sda frame and standard rc frame抗震性能比较高含量sda框架和标准rc框架.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Civil Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 478475, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2011/478475 Research Article Seismic Performance Comparison of a High-Content SDA Frame and Standard RC Frame John W. van de Lindt1 and R. Karthik Rechan2 1 Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA 2 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Campus Delivery 1372, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1372, USA Correspondence should be addressed to John W. van de Lindt, jwvandelindt@ Received 3 November 2010; Accepted 24 June 2011 Academic Editor: J. Antonio H. Carraro Copyright © 2011 J. W. van de Lindt and R. K. Rechan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study presents the method and results of an experiment to study the seismic behavior of a concrete portal frame with fifty percent of its cement content replaced with a spray dryer ash (SDA). Based on multiple-shake-table tests, the high content SDA frame was found to perform as well as the standard concrete frame for two earthquakes exceeding design-level intensity earthquakes. Hence, from a purely seismic/structural standpoint, it may be possible to replace approximately fifty percent of cement in a concrete mix with SDA for the construction of structural members in high seismic zones. This would help significantly redirect spray dryer ash away from landfills, thus, providing a sustainable greener alternative to concrete that uses only Portland cement, or only a small percentage of SDA or fly ash. 1