Fatigue Test Studies on Reinforced Concrete Hollow Slab Girder

Abstract:

Reinforced Concrete (RC) Hollow Slab Girder is widely used in Highway Engineering, and fatigue load is an essential aspect of causing damage. In order to accurately calculate the distribution and development laws of RC hollow slab girder fatigue strain, experiment on Amplitude fatigue with five experimental beams were done in the laboratory. The beams obviously presented a rule of three stages: the damage development is fast in fore period and later period; but the hazard from fatigue in the midterm developed steadily relatively. The destruction of fatigue damage is the steel brittle fracture. Fatigue failure could be divided into three periods: rapid development stage, stable stage and destruction stage. In last stage one or two main cracks continues to expand, the rest stop growing and gradually closed, it fatigue fractured at the main crack. With the increase of the number of cycles of fatigue loading, the growth rate slowed down into a relatively stable stage, when approaching destruction there is relatively substantially growth.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 787)
• Pages: 825-828
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.787.825
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Hong Bing Zhu, Yao Zhao, Bo Xia
• Keywords: Damage Law, Fatigue Test, Hollow Slab Girder, Reinforced Concrete (RC)

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