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This study is devoted to investigate the punching shear resistance of high strength reinforced concrete slabs with steel fibers by using the well-known (P3DNFEA), a non-linear finite element program for three-dimensional analysis of reinforced concrete structure.
Nine high strength reinforced concrete slabs with steel fibers and one without steel fibers, have been analyzed in the present study. The finite element solutions are compared with the available experimental data. In general, accepted agreement between the numerical results and the experimental results has been obtained.
Parametric studies have been carried out to investigate the effect of concrete compressive strength, steel fiber content, amount of steel rebars, slab depth and column dimensions on the behavior and ultimate strength of reinforced
concrete slabs.
The numerical analysis indicated that the increase in the concrete compressive strength (f'c) from 40 to 80 MPa has led to an increase in the strength by 69% and 84% for slabs without and with 0.5% steel fibers respectively. The numerical analysis indicated that by using 2.0% steel fibers, the ultimate capacity is increased by 81.7%, compared to a slab without fibers.
Also, the finite element solution revealed that increasing the longitudinal reinforcement ratio in the slab from 1% to 2% led to an increase in the ultimate shear strength of about 57%.
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