Abstract

According to most of current design standards, the need for high strength and ductility of reinforced concrete frame structures is accomplished utilizing a high amount of transverse reinforcement in beam–column joints. Reinforcement congestion can be overcome by means of Fiber Reinforced Concrete and High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete, which are known to improve the structural performance of single structural members or beam–column joints. Through an extended numerical simulation, this paper elaborates the overall benefits of using fiber reinforced concrete materials in critical regions to the seismic behaviour of regular reinforced concrete frame structures. An extensive number of non-linear static and dynamic analyses with distributed plasticity and fibre sections are performed to compare the behaviour of simple reinforced concrete and mixed reinforced concrete/fiber reinforced concrete frames in terms of total base shear and fragility curves and failure mechanisms. Even if execution and technological aspects are beyond the scope of the present work, the use of fiber reinforced concretes in critical regions of mixed frames seems to improve the structural performance of reinforced concrete frames at a global level.

Autore Pugliese

• Micelli Francesco

Tutti gli autori

• Candido L. , Micelli F.

Titolo volume/Rivista

BULLETIN OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

Anno di pubblicazione

2018

ISSN

1570-761X

ISBN

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Numero di citazioni Wos

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0

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24/04/2018

Settori ERC

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