Statistical and reliability study on shear strength of recycled coarse aggregate reinforced concrete beams
Ju H. Yerzhanov M. Serik A. Lee D. Kim J.R.
2 June 2021MDPI AG
Materials
2021#14Issue 12
The consumption of structural concrete in the construction industry is rapidly growing, and concrete will remain the main construction material for increasing urbanization all over the world in the near future. Meanwhile, construction and demolition waste from concrete structures is also leading to a significant environmental problem. Therefore, a proper sustainable solution is needed to address this environmental concern. One of the solutions can be using recycled coarse aggregates (RCA) in reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Extensive research has been conducted in this area in recent years. However, the usage of RCA concrete in the industry is still limited due to the absence of structural regulations appropriate to the RCA concrete. This study addresses a safety margin of RCA concrete beams in terms of shear capacity which is comparable to natural coarse aggregates (NCA) concrete beams. To this end, a database for reinforced concrete beams made of recycled coarse aggregates with and without shear reinforcement was established, collecting the shear specimens available from various works in the existing literature. The database was used to statistically identify the strength margin between RCA and NCA concrete beams and to calculate its safety margin based on reliability analysis. Moreover, a comparability study of RCA beams was conducted with its control specimens and with a database for conventional RC beams.
Recycled aggregate concrete , Reliability , Shear , Statistics , Structural behavior
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay Batyr Avenue, Nur-Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan
Department of Architectural Engineering, Chungbuk National University, 1 Chungdae-ro, Seowon-gu, Chungbuk, Cheongju, 28644, South Korea
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Architectural Engineering
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