Khan, W.; Akhtar, S.; Rawat, A.; Basu, A. Experimental and Numerical Study on Flexural Behavior of Concrete Beams Using Notches and Repair Materials. Sustainability2024, 16, 2723.
Khan, W.; Akhtar, S.; Rawat, A.; Basu, A. Experimental and Numerical Study on Flexural Behavior of Concrete Beams Using Notches and Repair Materials. Sustainability 2024, 16, 2723.
Khan, W.; Akhtar, S.; Rawat, A.; Basu, A. Experimental and Numerical Study on Flexural Behavior of Concrete Beams Using Notches and Repair Materials. Sustainability2024, 16, 2723.
Khan, W.; Akhtar, S.; Rawat, A.; Basu, A. Experimental and Numerical Study on Flexural Behavior of Concrete Beams Using Notches and Repair Materials. Sustainability 2024, 16, 2723.
Abstract
In a concrete beam initially crack is generated at the tension side under the effect of flexure, shear and torsional loadings. Accordingly, these weak concrete members require repair and/or strengthening to increase or restore their internal load capacity. In the current experimental and numerical investigations on concrete beam having different width to depth ratio of notch on its ultimate flexural load under one-point loading was considered. Further, the flexural behavior performance of notch concrete beam repaired with the three repair materials cement mortar, bacterial mortar and adhesive was also examined. Consequently, a comparative study is imple-mented between the experimental and numerical results. Concrete Damage plasticity (CDP) model was used for finite element numerical analysis of beam. The differences in numerical and experimental measured results ranges from 0.65 - 22.20 % for the ultimate load carrying capacity. As the notch size increases the ultimate load carrying capacity of beam was reduced. Addition-ally, linear regression model is used to predict the ultimate load values at an interval of 5 mm notch width up to maximum width of notch 100 mm. It can be observed that the ultimate load capacity for repaired beam is increased as compared to the notch beam for all the three repairing materials under consideration. The maximum ultimate load was increased in case of notch beam repaired using adhesive. As compared to the cement mortar the performance of the bacterial mortar in terms of the ultimate load was more. The bacterial mortar is found more sustainable and more durable as a repair material for the concrete structures.
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