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Simplified approach for evaluating residual strength of fire-exposed reinforced

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Article  in  Materials and Structures · December 2013

DOI: 10.1617/s11527-013-0036-2

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 Materials and Structures (2013) 46:2059–2075
DOI 10.1617/s11527-013-0036-2

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Simplified approach for evaluating residual strength

of fire-exposed reinforced concrete columns
V. K. R. Kodur • N. K. Raut • X. Y. Mao •

W. Khaliq

Received: 20 October 2012 / Accepted: 21 February 2013 / Published online: 28 February 2013
Ó RILEM 2013

Abstract An approach for evaluating residual strength approach is capable of predicting the residual strength
of reinforced concrete (RC) columns is presented in of fire-exposed RC columns.
this paper. The approach is based on the maximum
temperature attained in the concrete core and rebars, Keywords Fire resistance  Fire exposed columns 
and associated reduction in strength of steel and Reinforced concrete column  HSC column 
concrete. For validating the proposed approach, post- Residual strength  Analytical procedure
fire residual strength tests were carried out on five high
strength concrete columns. The test variables included List of symbols
type of concrete, presence of fibers (polypropylene Acore Area of ‘‘core region’’
and/or steel) in concrete and load ratio. The columns As Area of steel rebars
were loaded and exposed to a design fire, allowed to d Width (or depth) of the column
cool, and then residual strength tests were carried out. ds Diameter of steel rebar
Results from these fire tests indicate that high strength e Initial bending displacement of steel bar
concrete columns retain most of their room-tempera- fct Residual strength of concrete
ture load carrying capacity after exposure to a design fst,d Design yield strength
fire. A comparison of residual strength predictions with fst,k Nominal yield strength
measured values from tests indicates that the proposed fyt Residual strength of steel rebar
L Column length
Nr Residual strength of fire exposed RC column
V. K. R. Kodur (&)  N. K. Raut  X. Y. Mao  kst Reduction coefficient due to buckling
W. Khaliq
ksh Factor used to represent increased strength due
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Michigan State University, 3546 Engineering Building, to strain hardening
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA s Spacing of stirrups
e-mail: kodur@egr.msu.edu Tbar Temperature in rebars
Tc Temperature in concrete
N. K. Raut
Offshore Structural Analysis (SACS), Bentley System Inc, Tf Fire temperature
3850 N. Causeway Blvd, Suite 1555, Metairie, LA 70002, th Time (h)
USA x Depth of rebar from the surface (m) in x direction
x0 Depth of core region (m)
X. Y. Mao
Department of Civil Engineering, Suzhou University of y Depth of rebar from the surface (m) in
Science and Technology, Suzhou 215011, China y direction

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