Abstract:
Confinement of the core concrete using intermediate tie reinforcement is the best ways to
improve column ductile behavior, to avoid buckling of longitudinal bars and used to
confine the core concrete. It is important to assess the residual capacity of reinforced
concrete columns that have been subjected to high temperature after lateral loading. The
effect of thermal stresses and deformations on the performance of structural elements
after earthquake loadings not treated in standard codes. The aim of this study is to
investigate the response of RC columns subjected to high temperature and lateral loading.
In this study analysis of reinforced concrete columns with different configurations of
confining ties, strength of concrete and spacing of transverse reinforcement subjected to
ISO-834 fire loading after constant lateral loading. Experimental result reported in the
literature was used for validating the finite element model analyzed using ANSYS
software program. The column was modeled as a cantilever column with square cross-section. After validation, parametric studies conducted on selected variables such as
configurations of confining ties, spacing of transverse reinforcement and strength of
concrete.
A total of 19 column specimens 7 column specimens were modeled only applying gravity
and lateral loads. One column specimen was without confining ties used as reference
column. Other 11 column specimen was modeled considering fire loads in addition to
gravity and lateral loading. The FEA results show that reinforced concrete column with
intermediate confining reinforcement improve the load carrying capacity by 12.48%. Due
to the effect of thermal stress, load carrying capacities of the confined and unconfined
column by intermediate ties were reduced by 6.38% and 12.5% respectively. Increasing
spacing of transverse reinforcement from 100mm to 300mm (i.e. 66.66%) decreases the
strength by 4.22%. In other way the strength of concrete increases from 23MPa to
45MPa (i.e. 95.6%), the load carrying capacity of the column was increased by 14.74%.
Keywords: Post-earthquake fire, Finite element analysis and confining reinforcement