DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM WITH WEB OPENINGS

PRESENTED BY:NILESH H. SAKSENA EN. NO. 110280715004 SUBJECT AREA:- ANALYSIS, DESIGN, FEM

GUIDED BY:Prof. P.G.Patel

INTRODUCTION

In the construction of modern buildings, a network of pipes and ducts is necessary to accommodate essential services like water supply, sewage, air-conditioning, electricity, telephone, and computer network.
Usually, these pipes and ducts are placed underneath the beam soffit and, for aesthetic reasons, are covered by a suspended ceiling, thus creating a dead space. Passing these ducts through transverse openings in the floor beams leads to a reduction in the dead space and results in a more compact design.

INTRODUCTION

For small buildings, the savings thus achieved may not be significant, but for multistory buildings, any saving in story height multiplied by the number of stories can represent a substantial saving in total height, length of air-conditioning and electrical ducts, plumbing risers, walls and partition surfaces, and overall load on the foundation. However provisions of openings in web of the beam increase the stress concentration around the openings and change the simple behavior of the beam into very complex behavior.
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LITERATURE STUDY

PAPER :1

TITLE: Investigation of the Opening Effects on the Behavior of Concrete Beams Without Additional Reinforcement in Opening Region Using Fem Method.
AUTHOR: Soroush Amiri, Reza Masoudnia. JOURNAL: Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences.
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YEAR: 2011.

 In this study they simulate the simply supported concrete beams consisting of circular openings with varying diameters using ANSYS 10.

All beams had an identical cross section of 100 mm 250 mm and 2000 mm in length with the circular opening in seven diameters: 150 mm, 130 mm, 120 mm, 110 mm, 100 mm, 80 mm and 60 mm. The beams were simulated to obtain the load-deflection behavior.
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VERIFICATION STUDY:
They modeled two beams one without opening and other with rectangular openings using ANSY10.
The beam already tested experimentally by Abdalla etal. (2003). The dimensions of the full-size beams were 100 mm 2050 mm250 mm. The span between the two supports was 2000 mm. Longitudinal reinforcements and shear stirrups are modeled throughout the beam. The goal of the comparison of the FE model and the beam from Abdalla (2003) is to ensure that the simulation process is correct.
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The first beam was RC solid beam without opening that the ultimate load obtained from the experimental test was 83,000N, while the ultimate load extracted from ANSYS analysis outputs is 77,925N. Therefore, the difference is about 6% and it was proven that ANSYS software is an appropriate method to predict the behavior of RC beams.

The second beam was RC beam with rectangular opening (height of the opening = 100 mm and width of the opening = 300mm). The ultimate load obtained from the experimental test was 41,000N, whilst the ultimate load attained from ANSYS analysis outputs is 47,582N. Therefore, the difference is about 16% and it was acceptable.

EFFECTS OF CIRCULAR OPENING SIZES WITH VARYING DIAMETERS:

LOAD VD DEFLECTION CURVE FOR DIFFERENT MODELS10

RESULTS FROM THE LOAD VS DEFLECTION CURVE:

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CONCLUSION:
The results obtained from this study showed that the performance of the beams with circular openings with diameter less than 0.48D (D is depth of the beam web) has no effect on the ultimate load capacity of the RC rectangular section beams. Introducing the circular opening with diameter more than 0.48D reduces the ultimate load capacity of the RC rectangular section beams at least 26%.

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PAPER:2 TITLE: The Study of the Effects of Web Openings on the Concrete Beams. AUTHOR: Soroush Amiri, Reza Masoudnia and Ali Akbar Pabarja

JOURNAL: Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

YEAR: 2011.

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ABSTRACT: This paper aims to review the results of previous research studies on precast and prestressed beams, T-beams, deep beams, and rectangular concrete beams with web openings. The behavior of both reinforced concrete beams with rectangular and circular openings and precast beams with rectangular and circular openings was investigated. The effects of the size and location of the openings on the behavior of such beams are examined and the strengths of these openings are explored as well.
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PAPER:3 TITLE: DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS WITH WEB OPENINGS.

AUTHOR: M.A. Mansur.

JOURNAL: The 6th Asia-Pacific Structural Engineering and Construction Conference (APSEC 2006). YEAR: 2006.

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ABSTACT: In this paper, major findings relevant to the analysis and design of such beams under the most commonly encountered loading case of bending and shear are extracted and summarized. BEAMS WITH SMALL OPENINGS: Openings may be considered as small openings if depth (or diameter) of the opening is less than 40% of the overall beam depth. BEAMS WITH LARGE OPENINGS: Openings having depth more than 40% of overall depth are considered as large openings. 16

REINFORCEMENT DETAILS:

REINFORCEMENT DETAILS FOR BEAM WITH SMALL CIRCULAR OPENING.

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REINFORCEMENT DETAILS:

REINFORCMENT DETAILS FOR BEAM WITH LARGE OPENING.

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PAPER:4

TITLE: A review of design specifications of opening in the web for simply supported RC beams.
AUTHOR: Soroush Amiri*, Reza Masoudnia and Mohammad Amin Ameri. JOURNAL: Journal of Civil Engineering and Construction Technology. YEAR: April 2011.

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FACILITATION OF SELECTING THE SIZE AND LOCATION OF THE WEB OPENINGS:

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CONCLUSIONS: In this paper they gives the details for the location of the openings in the beam. More evaluation of behavior for concrete beam with web openings is needed to gain more efficient and reasonable methods for designing and construction.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH

To determine the effects of the size and location of the openings on the behaviour of the beam.
Dynamic analysis of the beam with openings using finite element analysis in ANSYS 14. Interpretation of the result obtained by software analysis and its comparison with experimental result.
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MODEL OF BEAM CREATED IN ANSYS 14 WORKBENCH:

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WORK SCHEDULE
Sr. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Month August-2012 September-2012 October-2012 November-2012 December-2012 Jauary-2013 February-2013 March-2013 April-2013 May-2013 June-2013 Work to be done Topic selection and literature collection Review of literature Learning software ANSYS Learning software ANSYS Application of the software to the modeling Modeling of the beam using appropriate software Analysis of the model Interpretation of the result Reporting Submission Defense
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