Abstract

This study investigated the interfacial shear performance of concrete strengthened with bonded steel plate through tests, fracture energy based theoretical analysis and numerical simulation. Firstly, the interfacial shear bearing capacity of concrete strengthened with bonded steel plate having various lengths was experimentally investigated, and the failure mode and bearing capacity were discussed. Secondly, based on fracture theory, fictitious crack hypothesis, concrete failure criteria and bilinear linear softening shear slip model, the interfacial shear capacity was theoretically derived, including the effective interfacial shear stress transfer length, fracture energy and peak interfacial shear bearing capacity. Moreover, the interfacial shear failure behavior was also numerically simulated, and the interfacial shear stress and normal stress during the whole loading and failure process were discussed. The results confirmed that the numerical simulation using the theoretically derived interfacial fracture energy and peak shear strength could give simulation results in good agreement with experimental results. Also, the calculated interfacial bearing capacity using the theoretical approach showed excellent agreement with the experimental results. Furthermore, the influence of bonding length was also theoretically derived using the numerical parametric simulation results, and a revised interfacial shear bearing capacity considering bonding length was further proposed, which was also in good agreement with both experimental and numerical simulation results.

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