DINAMIC FORCES IN THE ECCENTRICALLY COMPRESSED MEMBERS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES UNDER ACCIDENTAL IMPACTS

Abstract

Interest to solving scientific problems related to the evaluation of facilities' resistance and its protection against progressive collapse increases and attracts more and more attention of specialists in the field of structural analysis and design. Therefore, the article presents the results of a computational analysis of dynamic forces in eccentrically compressed reinforced concrete members of structures under accidental impact such as sudden removal of a load bearing member. Using relations for specific deformation energy and integrating it through the cross-section area, the analytical expressions for dynamic strains and curvatures have been obtained for physically and structurally nonlinear RC frame members under eccentric compression. These expressions in some cases allow symbolic solution, for example, in MathCAD software. In contrary, it can be solved with the approximate iterative method. To assess the reliability and effectiveness of the proposed quasi-static method, the analysis of the cast-in-situ reinforced concrete frame resistance to progressive collapse has been performed. The article also provides comparison of the simulation results of the nonlinear quasi-static analysis and the nonlinear dynamic time-history analysis.