Análise experimental e computacional de vigas biapoiadas de concreto armado reforçadas com CRFC

Abstract

The lack of maintenance, the change in loadings, project and execution failures, and even failures of constituent materials of a structural part lead to the necessity of applying a structural reinforcement. Among these methods highlights the structural reinforcement with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP). This research has the objective to examine whether there is a good relationship between laboratory tests and a simulation model of reinforced concrete beams strengthened in bending with CFRP, in addition to analyze the influence of anchorage increments application in the structural behavior. The computacional model was developed in the comercial software ANSYS, by the utilization of the Finite Element Modeling for the structural analysis. The resistance gain with the implementation of one and two layers of CFRP was evaluated compared with the reference beam. The concrete – reinforce interface was considered in the computacional simulation, since the active efforts in this area are the reason of this type of structure failure. Thus, the Cohesive Zone Model was used for the interface representation. In relation to the experimental tests, beyond the number of layers variation, it was also evaluated the influence of anchorage increments application in the structural behavior. As results, it was obtained a good accuracy of the computacional models and the experimental tests in relation to the rupture load, in addition to the displacements values for the reinforced beams. However, the strain values achieved by the computacional model were higher than the experimental analysis rate values. Besides, it was also noticed that the beams had an increase of the stiffness with the addition of the reinforced layers. Furthermore, it was verified that the anchorage increments application caused an increase of the resistance, even more efficient than the addition of layers, for this case of study.