Shear Behavior of Self Compacting Concrete Deep Beams

Abstract

This study deals with shear behavior of self compacting concrete (SCC) deep beams. The experimental work includes testing eight reinforced concrete simply supported deep beams cast using SCC. All tested beams have dimensions of 100×330×1050 mm and have been subjected to two point loads. The parameters considered are shear span to effective depth ratio (a/d), concrete compressive strength (fʹc) and vertical web reinforcement ratio (v). Test results indicated that the increase in (a/d) ratio from 0.6 to 1 leads to decreases in cracking and ultimate shear strengths by average ratios of 28.6 % and 23.3 % respectively. Increasing (fʹc) from 32.84 MPa to 64.65 MPa leads to increases in the cracking and ultimate shear strengths by average ratios of 11.7 % and 38.8 % respectively. Increasing the vertical web reinforcement ratio (v) from 0.25 % to 0.57 % leads to an increase in the ultimate shear strength by average ratio of 10.1 %. The analytical work includes derivation of new method for predicting ultimate shear strength of SCC deep beams depending on modified strut and tie model with adoption of a circular failure interaction relation. The new method gives high agreement with the experimental results by comparison with the ACI-2011 Code method.