Shear capacity of basalt fiber reinforced recycled aggregate concrete
deep beams without stirrups based on strut-and-tie model
Abstract
To investigate the shear capacity and behavior of recycled aggregate
concrete (RAC) deep beams reinforced with basalt fiber-reinforced
polymer (BFRP) bars without shear reinforcements. A total of nine RAC
deep beams with a 100% replacement ratio of recycled aggregate (RA)
were constructed and tested in four-point bending. Four key variables,
shear span-to-depth ratio ( ), longitudinal reinforcement ratio ( ),
beam effective depth ( ) and compressive strength of RAC ( ), were
determined to explore the failure modes, relationship between load and
deflection, first cracking load and strain distribution in longitudinal
reinforcements. Results from tests indicated that diagonal tensile
failure was the predominant failure mode in BFRP-RAC beams. The shear
capacity increased when the shear span-to-depth ratio decreased and the
compressive strength of RAC increased. In the light of the experimental
results, the model of strut-and-tie model (STM) was used to analyze and
calculate. In addition, the shear capacity obtained by the experiment is
compared with the calculated value by using STM. It showed that the
calculated values are in good agreement with the test values of shear
capacity of deep beams.