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Experimental assessment on flexural behavior of demountable steel-UHPC composite slabs with a novel NPR steel plate

  • Jin-Ben Gu (College of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology) ;
  • Jun-Yan Wang (Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials, Tongji University, Ministry of Education) ;
  • Yi Tao (College of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology) ;
  • Qing-Xuan Shi (College of Civil Engineering, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology)
  • Received : 2023.04.25
  • Accepted : 2023.10.31
  • Published : 2023.11.25
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Abstract

This study experimentally investigates the flexural behavior of steel-UHPC composite slabs composed of an innovative negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) steel plate and Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) slab connected via demountable high-strength bolt shear connectors. Eight demountable composite slab specimens were fabricated and tested under traditional four-point bending method. The effects of loading histories (positive and negative bending moment), types of steel plate (NPR steel plate and Q355 steel plate) and spacings of high-strength bolts (150 mm, 200 mm and 250 mm) on the flexural behavior of demountable composite slab, including failure mode, load-deflection curve, interface relative slip, crack width and sectional strain distribution, were evaluated. The results revealed that under positive bending moment, the failure mode of composite slabs employing NPR steel plate was distinct from that with Q355 steel plate, which exhibited that part of high-strength bolts was cut off, part of pre-embedded padded extension nuts was pulled out, and UHPC collapsed due to instantaneous instability and etc. Besides, under the same spacing of high-strength bolts, NPR steel plate availably delayed and restrained the relative slip between steel plate and UHPC plate, thus significantly enhanced the cooperative deformation capacity, flexural stiffness and load capacity for composite slabs further. While under negative bending moment, NPR steel plate effectively improved the flexural capacity and deformation characteristics of composite slabs, but it has no obvious effect on the initial flexural stiffness of composite slabs. Meanwhile, the excellent crack-width control ability for UHPC endowed composite members with better durability. Furthermore, according to the sectional strain distribution analysis, due to the negative Poisson's ratio effect and high yield strength of NPR steel plate, the tensile strain between NPR steel plate and UHPC layer held strain compatibility during the whole loading process, and the magnitude of upward movement for sectional plastic neutral axis could be ignored with the increase of positive bending moment.

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Acknowledgement

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Major Project of Science and Technology of Ningbo (Grant No. 2020Z034), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52278271; Grant No. 51978567).

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