Strengthening of Fire Damaged, Light Weight, High Strength Reinforced Concrete Beam Using SIFCON Jacket

Ahmed Habeeb Albo Sabar, Mohammed Mansour Kadhum

Abstract


This study aims to extrapolate the behavior of lightweight (LECA) high strength concrete beams subjected to high temperatures. the LECA aggregate was utilized as coarse fraction in the reference mixture. a post development process in terms of jacketing the fire damaged beams with SIFCON materials layer was also investigated. In addition to the reference samples, various parameters of concrete beams and conditioning were conducted, namely, fire duration exposure, concrete cover, and SIFCON layer thickness. In details, two concrete cover thickness, half and one-hour fire duration exposure, and two SIFCON layer thicknesses were the main parameters in this study. the thermal gradient through the beam cross section was captured through installing thermocouples sensors embedded inside at various location. The physical and chemical properties were tested for all used materials in this study. Overall, fourteen concrete beam samples were tested for all the three phases (normal or reference, fire damaged samples, and post enhancement with SIFCON jacket). the level of comparison for the tested samples was focused on several parameters are; maximum shear load capacity and corresponded displacement, ductility index, cracking load, initial and secant stiffness, and energy absorption. The experimental test results under the scope of this research have shown significant improvement for the strengthened beams were observed compared with the damaged samples. Moreover, the results have cleared that the strengthened beams, in term of the mentioned indices were recovered as and comparable to the undamaged (reference beam), except the absorption energy. Where further studies and efforts have to be paid to overcome such issue.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21533/pen.v10i1.2740

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