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Experimental Study on Shear Behaviour of High Strength Reinforced Recycled Concrete Beam

Oh Chai Lian, Lee Siong Wee, Mohd Asha’ari Masrom and Goh Ching Hua

Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, Volume 21, Issue 2, July 2013

Keywords: Recycled concrete aggregate, high strength concrete, recycled beam, shear, shear span

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Recently, there has been great interest on the applicability of Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) as a new ecological construction material that can be sustainable in a gradually expanding construction industry. This paper reports the structural performance particularly on shear behaviour of high strength reinforced recycled concrete beams. Compressive cube strength of the tested beams ranged from 65-74 MPa at the age of 28-days. The experimental program compared conventional concrete mix with concrete mix having substitution of 25% recycled concrete aggregates of grade 25-30 MPa. In this study, three 150 mm x 200 mm x 1200 mm simply supported rectangular concrete beams in each mix were tested under a four-point bending static load with various shear span to effective depth ratios (a/d = 1.0, 1.5, 2.0). Subsequently, the shear behavior of the beams was investigated through studies of load-deflection responses, effect of a/d ratios and crack patterns. The test results reported that the substitution of 25% recycled concrete coarse aggregates barely affects the shear capacity of the high strength reinforced concrete beams with a/d of 1.5 onwards. Finally, experimental results were compared using existing design codes by ACI 318, Eurocode-2 and AS3600 which lie on the safe side

ISSN 0128-7680

e-ISSN 2231-8526

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JST-0404-2012

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