Stress redistribution of simply supported reinforced concrete beams under fire conditions

Abstract

This study presents experimental and numerical investigations of simply supported steel reinforced concrete (RC) beams under fire. The temperature field of cross sections, the vertical deflection at mid-span, and specifically the axial expansion displacement at beam-ends were measured during the fire tests. A novel finite element (FE) model of a RC beam under fire was developed, in which the water loss in the heat transfer analysis and the concrete transient strain in the mechanical analysis were considered. Based on the validated FE model proposed in this study, parametric studies were conducted to investigate the effects of the beam type, the protective layer thickness, and the load ratio on the thermal and mechanical behavior of simply supported RC beams. It was found that greater fire resistance and fire performance of girder beams in comparison to secondary beams contributed to the non-structural reinforcements, which effectively compensated for the reduced tensile capacities of structural reinforcements because of the degradation of the material properties. In addition, the history of normal stress distributions of concrete under fire can be divided into three phases: expansion, stress redistribution and plateau phases.

Keywords

reinforced concrete beam / transient strain / fire condition / parametric analysis / stress redistribution

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