N. K. Paul and S. Saha
Improvement of Load Carrying Capacity of an RCC TBeam Bridge Longitudinal Girder by Replacing Steel Bars with SMA Bars
1008 - 1012
2017
11
7
International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007903
https://publications.waset.org/vol/127
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
An innovative three dimensional finite element model has beed developed and tested under two point loading system to examine the structural behavior of the longitudinal reinforced concrete Teebeam bridge girder, reinforcing with steel and shape memory alloy bars respectively. 25 of steel bars are replaced with superelastic Shape Memory Alloy bars in this study. Finite element analysis is performed using ANSYS 11.0 program. Experimentally a model of steel reinforced girder has been casted and its load deflection responses are checked with ANSYS analysis. A comparison of load carrying capacity for the model between steel RC girder and the girder combined reinforcement with SMA and steel are also performed.
Open Science Index 127, 2017