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Computers and Concrete Volume 10, Number 5, November 2012 , pages 435-455 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/cac.2012.10.5.435 |
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Determination of plastic hinge properties for static nonlinear analysis of FRP-strengthened circular columns in bridges |
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Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri, Azadeh Jaberi Jahromi and Benyamin Mohebi
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| Abstract | ||
| In the recent years, rehabilitation of structures, strengthening and increasing the ductility of them under seismic loads have become so vital that many studies has been carried out on the retrofit of steel and concrete members so far. Bridge piers are very important members concerning rehabilitation, in which the plastic hinging zone is very vulnerable. Pier is usually confined by special stirrups predicted in the design procedure; moreover, fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) jackets are used after construction to confine the pier. FRP wrapping of the piers is one of the most effective ways of increasing moment and ductility capacity of them, which has a growing application due to its relative advantages. In many earthquake-resistant bridges, reinforced concrete columns have a major defect which could be retrofitted in different ways like using FRP. After rehabilitation, it is important to check the strengthening adequacy by dynamic nonlinear analysis and precise modeling of material properties. If the plastic hinge properties are simplified for the strengthened members, as the simplified properties which FEMA 356 proposes for nonstrengthened members, static nonlinear analysis could be performed more easily. Current paper involves this matter and it is intended to determine the plastic hinge properties for static nonlinear analysis of the FRP-strengthened circular columns. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| plastic hinge; pushover analysis; finite element model; FRP; Ansys. | ||
| Address | ||
| Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri: Center of Excellence for Fundamental Studies in Structural Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran; Azadeh Jaberi Jahromi: School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran; Benyamin Mohebi: Department of Civil engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran | ||