Abstract
An efficient and simplified plane beam-column joint model that can describe the strength deterioration, stiffness degradation, and pinching effect was developed for the nonlinear analysis of non-seismically detailed reinforced concrete frames. The proposed beam-column joint model is a super-element consisting of eight spring components and one panel zone component, representing the bond-slip mechanism of the longitudinal reinforcement and the shear deformation mechanism of the joint concrete core region, respectively. In order to represent the dynamic response at the system level, the elastic constitutive law is applied to the eight connector springs, while the Bouc-Wen-Baber-Noori (BWBN) model is adopted to describe the hysteretic behavior of the panel zone component. For the implementation of the finite element analysis, the algorithmically consistent tangent of the BWBN model is derived as a uni-axial constitutive model, while the initial stiffness of the panel zone component is determined by the concrete compression strut assumption. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed beam-column joint model were calibrated at both the component and structural levels by comparing the simulated results with the experimental data for non-seismically detailed joint sub-assemblages and a reinforced concrete plane frame.
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