RESEARCH ARTICLE
Flexural Behaviour of Precast, Prestressed Ribbed RPC Bottom Panels
Zheng Wenzhong*, Lu Xueyuan, Wang Ying
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 535
Last Page: 543
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-9-535
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501509010535
Article History:
Received Date: 16/9/2014Revision Received Date: 23/12/2014
Acceptance Date: 31/12/2014
Electronic publication date: 31/7/2015
Collection year: 2015
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Abstract
This study introduces a new type of precast, prestressed reactive powder concrete (RPC) bottom panel for a large-span composite slab. The bottom panels, which have one or two inverted ribs with openings, act as formwork during the construction stage. The paper experimentally investigated the crack characteristics, deflection, and normal section bearing capacity of four precast, prestressed ribbed RPC bottom panels under flexural load. The results indicated that the RPC ultimate strain under non-uniform compression is 5500x106 and the plastic influence coefficient of the section modulus is linear with the longitudinal reinforcement ratio. The tensile stress of RPC at the cracked section should be considered while calculating the flexural stiffness; the equation used to determine the nominal tensile stress of RPC as a major variable for calculating the crack width at the bottom of panels was proposed. The bottom panels generally exhibit an over-reinforced failure mode behaviour without the composite layer; the calculation method of the normal section bearing capacity of this mode was established.