TY - GEN
T1 - Structural strengthening of concrete footings using external prestressing
AU - Lu, X.
AU - Aboutaha, R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Bridge footing plays an important role in transferring loads from superstructure to the soil underneath. Its flexural, shear, and load carrying capacities are critical to the overall performance of the bridge. Bridge footings may require strengthening due to structural deficiency, or increase in traffic load. In this paper, a footing enlargement retrofit method utilizing external prestressing is proposed. For a square spread footing, the proposed strengthening system could be implemented using the following steps: (1) trimming four corners of the square footing, (2) installing circular prestressing ducts and tendons, (3) placing formwork and casting the additional concrete, and (4) stressing the prestressing strands. The composite action between the new and existing concrete parts is provided by the external circular prestressing. Compared with the dowel-splicing connections used in traditional methods, this new connection is more effective and practical, as the punching shear is the dominating mode of failure in the bridge footing. In this research, the effectiveness of the proposed method on improving the punching shear capacity of square spread footing is presented. Finite element models were built and analyzed using the commercial software Abaqus CAE. The primary investigated parameters were footing size, reinforcement ratio, and amount of prestressing strands. The results of this investigation suggest that the external circular prestressing can significantly improve the punching shear capacity of square spread footing.
AB - Bridge footing plays an important role in transferring loads from superstructure to the soil underneath. Its flexural, shear, and load carrying capacities are critical to the overall performance of the bridge. Bridge footings may require strengthening due to structural deficiency, or increase in traffic load. In this paper, a footing enlargement retrofit method utilizing external prestressing is proposed. For a square spread footing, the proposed strengthening system could be implemented using the following steps: (1) trimming four corners of the square footing, (2) installing circular prestressing ducts and tendons, (3) placing formwork and casting the additional concrete, and (4) stressing the prestressing strands. The composite action between the new and existing concrete parts is provided by the external circular prestressing. Compared with the dowel-splicing connections used in traditional methods, this new connection is more effective and practical, as the punching shear is the dominating mode of failure in the bridge footing. In this research, the effectiveness of the proposed method on improving the punching shear capacity of square spread footing is presented. Finite element models were built and analyzed using the commercial software Abaqus CAE. The primary investigated parameters were footing size, reinforcement ratio, and amount of prestressing strands. The results of this investigation suggest that the external circular prestressing can significantly improve the punching shear capacity of square spread footing.
KW - External prestressing
KW - Finite element model
KW - Punching shear capacity
KW - Spread footing
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-8079-6_29
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-8079-6_29
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85104155142
SN - 9789811580789
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 297
EP - 307
BT - EASEC16 - Proceedings of the 16th East Asian-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, 2019
A2 - Wang, Chien Ming
A2 - Kitipornchai, Sritawat
A2 - Dao, Vinh
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 16th East Asian-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, 2019
Y2 - 3 December 2019 through 6 December 2019
ER -