The service life of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete (RC) infrastructure can be improved through patch repairs and structural strengthening. However, the effect of varying corrosion damage and patch repair extent has not yet been clearly pronounced. The fatigue performance of corrosion-damaged RC beams that have been patch repaired to varying lengths and subsequently strengthened with carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates was evaluated by conducting four-point bending tests and cyclic load tests on simply supported beams. Three criteria were identified to evaluate performance: fatigue life, crack development and stiffness degradation. Various data acquisition techniques, such as neutral axis DEMEC strain targets, strain gauges, linear variable differential transducers (LVDT) and digital image correlation (DIC) were employed to investigate these performance criteria. The experimental results indicated that an increase in corrosion damage and patch repair extent lowered the ultimate static failure load and increased fatigue life. An increase in specimen stiffness was observed for the specimens with the longer damage extent compared to the specimens with the shorter damage extent, where stiffness was gauged in terms of midspan deflection, composite material strain and neutral axis shift. Moreover, the results yielded through the DIC process showed potential to identify potential failure locations, quite early in the specimen fatigue life by comparison of tangential strain, peak vertical deflection and the eventual failure location.

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Fatigue Behaviour of Patch-Repaired and CFRP Strengthened Reinforced Concrete Beams

  • Valontino James,
  • Pilate Moyo

摘要

The service life of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete (RC) infrastructure can be improved through patch repairs and structural strengthening. However, the effect of varying corrosion damage and patch repair extent has not yet been clearly pronounced. The fatigue performance of corrosion-damaged RC beams that have been patch repaired to varying lengths and subsequently strengthened with carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates was evaluated by conducting four-point bending tests and cyclic load tests on simply supported beams. Three criteria were identified to evaluate performance: fatigue life, crack development and stiffness degradation. Various data acquisition techniques, such as neutral axis DEMEC strain targets, strain gauges, linear variable differential transducers (LVDT) and digital image correlation (DIC) were employed to investigate these performance criteria. The experimental results indicated that an increase in corrosion damage and patch repair extent lowered the ultimate static failure load and increased fatigue life. An increase in specimen stiffness was observed for the specimens with the longer damage extent compared to the specimens with the shorter damage extent, where stiffness was gauged in terms of midspan deflection, composite material strain and neutral axis shift. Moreover, the results yielded through the DIC process showed potential to identify potential failure locations, quite early in the specimen fatigue life by comparison of tangential strain, peak vertical deflection and the eventual failure location.