Microsoft Word - numero_54_art_02_2794 A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 21 Modeling of CFRP strengthened RC beams using the SNSM technique, proposed as an alternative to NSM and EBR techniques Boulebd Adel, Ferhoune Noureddine Department of Civil Engineering, Larbi Ben M'Hidi University, Oum el Bouaghi, Algerie boulebdadel@hotmail.fr, ferhoune.noureddin@gmail.com Boukhezar Mohcene L.M.S.S., University of Constantine, Department of Civil Engineering, Larbi Ben M'Hidi University, Oum el Bouaghi, Algerie mohcene.boukhezar@gmail.com Habib Abdelhak Mesbah DSc., L.G.C.G.M., INSA of Rennes, University of Rennes 1, France habib-abdelhak.mesbah@univ-rennes1.fr ABSTRACT. In this paper, an analytical and numerical study in finite element by the ABAQUS software was conducted. The goal of this work is to study the bending behaviour of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with the side near surface mounted technique. This technique is proposed as an alternative to overcome the unpredictable failure mode by the strengthening detachment resulting from the external bonded strengthening technique. Also, to avoid the failure mode by separation of the concrete cover ensuing from the near surface mounted technique. Moreover, a comparison between the behaviour of the three techniques, the effect of the quantity of strengthening as well as a validation of the results with the literature were presented. The results of this study show that numerical and analytical models can be used to predict the behaviour of reinforced concrete beams strengthened according to the three techniques. In addition, a clear improvement of the strengthened beams bending capacity is noticed. Lastly, the side near surface mounted technique preserves the ductility of the reinforced concrete beams modeled and therefore provides a better failure mode. KEYWORDS. CFRP; SNSM; NSM; EBR; Failure mode. Citation: Boulebd, A., Noureddine, F., Mohcene, B., Mesbah, H. A., Modeling of CFRP strengthened RC beams using the SNSM technique, proposed as an alternative to NSM and EBR techniques, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35. Received: 19.04.2020 Accepted: 29.06.2020 Published: 01.10.2020 Copyright: © 2020 This is an open access article under the terms of the CC-BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. https://youtu.be/lBC_Ovu7XlQ A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 22 INTRODUCTION n the last years, the fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) has emerged as the material of choice for structural strengthening, due to its strengthening efficiency and light weight. Firstly, FRP was applied for the strengthening of the reinforced concrete (RC) beams according to the external bonded reinforced (EBR) technique. This technique is characterized by an easy implementation process [1] and a good strengthening efficiency [2, 3]. The EBR technique involves bonding FRP fabrics or laminates to the lower part of the RC beams using an epoxy resin. However, the disadvantage of this technique is the unpredictable failure and premature FRP debonding [4-7]. To overcome the failure mode of EBR techniques, the near surface mounted (NSM) technique was proposed [8-10]. It differs from the previous one by anchoring bars or rods in grooves recessed in the tensioned part of the RC beams, then filled using an epoxy resin. Indeed, this technique has overcome the disadvantages of the EBR technique. The NSM FRP strengthened beams have shown a better resistance and a better ductility. However, it must be noted that the failure mode by separation of the concrete covering is the disadvantage of this technique [11-16]. Thus, the side near surface mounted (SNSM) technique has been proposed as an alternative approach for strengthening RC beams to overcome the limitations of EBR and NSM techniques. The SNSM implementation process is similar to that of the NSM, except for the FRP strengthening, which is inserted in the lateral sides of the beam instead of the bottom part. Several researchers, such as Al-Mahmoud F et al [17], Bilotta et al [11] and Sharaky et al [12], have studied the behaviour of the NSM technique. Their experimental investigations have shown a significant increase in the bending capacity of RC beams. These studies have also proved that the most frequent failure mode for the NSM technique is failure by separation of the concrete covering. On the other hand, Hosen et al [18] studied the SNSM technique as an alternative to the NSM one. In their experimental investigation a significant improvement of 100% in bending capacity and 138% in load capacity were observed. In a second experimental and analytical study of Hosen et al [19], the results also showed that the SNSM strengthening technique significantly increases the first cracking capacities by 153%, the yield by 108% and the extreme load by 147% compared to the control RC beam. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE his study has shown the efficiency of the analytical and 3D numerical models that have the ability to predict the behaviour of carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) strengthened RC beams using the three techniques SNSM, NSM and EBR with an accuracy of up to 97%. In this study, it was clearly demonstrated that the SNSM technique overcame the disadvantages of the other two techniques. This includes: the debonding failure mode of the strengthening for the EBR; the failure by the separation covering of the concrete of the NSM. This achieved a preserved ductility at 72.7%, a better mode of failure by the crushing of the compressed part of the concrete and a strengthening efficiency of 81.7%. It is also noticeable that increasing the amount of strengthening increases the flexural capacity and rigidity of the RC beams strengthened using all the three techniques. This, along with a small advantage for the NSM technique. For this purpose, this study is considered as a contribution to a better understanding of the behaviour of the SNSM technique, as there are few studies on this technique. Indeed, in the earlier studies on the SNSM technique, the majority of the beams studied have been tested using only the SNSM technique. However, our study aims to compare this technique with the other strengthening techniques NSM and EBR. NUMERICAL STUDY he study includes a 3D finite element model implemented within the ABAQUS calculation software. This software was chosen because of its precision when it comes to modelling strengthened RC beams [20, 21]. Seven RC beams have been subjected to four-point bending. We have chosen the four-point bending test for this numerical simulation to avoid shear failure. The load is modelled as a force reaction to a displacement imposed at two reference points coupled to the load application surface. The dimensions of RC beams were as follows: 2300 mm long, a rectangular cross- section of 125 mm wide and 250 mm high, with a span between supports of 2000 mm. The reinforcement of the RC beams is composed of a steel of high adherence with 2 HA 12 in tensile and 2 HA 10 in compression. In order to avoid shear failure, a smooth-framed transverse reinforcement of 6 mm spaced 50 mm apart was placed along the RC beam. The seven RC beams were reinforced according to Fig. 1 and Tab. 1, with CFRP rods 10 mm and 12 mm in diameter, and a CFRP I T T A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 23 plate 2x70 mm and 3x70 mm in order to have a very narrow reinforcement sections. All strengthening elements have a length of 1900 mm. N° DESIGNATION ID 01 Referencing RC beam REF 02 Strengthened RC beam using the EBR technique with a 2x70 mm CFRP lamellae EBR-10 03 Strengthened RC beam using the EBR technique with a 3x70 mm CFRP lamellae EBR-12 04 Strengthened RC beam using the SNSM technique with 10 mm diameter CFRP rods SNSM-10 05 Strengthened RC beam using the SNSM technique with 12 mm diameter CFRP rods SNSM-12 06 Strengthened RC beam using the NSM technique with 10 mm diameter CFRP rods NSM-10 07 Strengthened RC beam using the NSM technique with 12 mm diameter CFRP rods NSM-12 Table 1: Details of the RC beams modeled. Figure 1: Configuration of the RC beams modeled. The strengthening mesh is type S4R5: a thin four node double curved shell, reduced integration, using five degrees of freedom per node. For the steel, the mesh is type T3D2: a 3-dimensional linear beam with two nodes. While for the beam, it is type C3D8R: a linear brick with eight nodes, reduced integration. However, the reinforcement zones have had a more refined mesh, which was necessary to converge. The total number of elements for the reference beam is 5064 with 17 672 nodes, while for the reinforced beams the average number of elements is 9986 with 50 887 nodes. A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 24 Figure 2: Mesh of the beams modeled. Material properties The concrete has been modelled as a solid element with 48.4 MPa compressive strength and 3.6 MPa tensile strength. The behavior law used is the concrete damaged plasticity (CDP) model that is a criterion reproducing a behaviour very close to the one of the concrete. Parameters Values Dilation angle 36° Eccentricity 0.1 σB0 / σC0 1.16 K 0.667 Viscosity 0 Table 2: Summary of the CDP model parameters [31],[32]. Figure 3: The concrete behavior law (A) tensile (B) compressive. In order to model the steel reinforcement behavior, a firm wire rope element integrated into the concrete was used. A bi- linear elasto-plastic behaviour law was used (Fig. 4(A)) with a density of 7850 kg /m3, a modulus of elasticity Es = 200 GPa, a coefficient υ=0.3, and a yield strength of 550 MPa for the tension and compression and 300 MPa for the transverse frame. The strengthening of the NSM and SNSM techniques is modelled according to a linear model as a solid element embedded in another solid element, which is resin with a concrete/resin and resin/strengthening interfaces of the cohesive type. The strengthening of the EBR technique is modelled as a sole element bonded by a cohesive interaction to the concrete. The A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 25 CFRP has an elastic modulus Ef = 165 GPa and a tensile strength of 3100 MPa. The Epoxy resin has a compressive modulus of elasticity of 11.2 GPa, a tensile of 9.6 GPa, a compressive strength of 95 MPa, a shear strength of 19 MPa and a tensile strength of 31 MPa. Concerning cohesive interactions, we have opted for a tensile separation model, which determines the function of the opening between the two surfaces connected by this interaction [22-24]. It operates according to a linear elastic behaviour at the beginning, followed by the damage translated into openings that continue until the total degradation. This degradation represents the detachment of the strengthening [25]. Fig.4(C) and Eqns.1-4 can represent this behaviour model. 1.5maxT B fw t  (1) 2.25 1.25 b bf f Bw b bc c              (2) 20.01950S B fw t  (3) 20.308G B ff w t  (4) bf : CFRP width. bc : concrete widths. Bw : concrete width ratio on CFRP. Gf : total interracial rupture energy. So : effective separation at failure. Tmax : maximum interface strength. Figure 4: The behaviour laws. (A) Steel, (B) strengthening and (C) CFRP-Resin-Concert interface. NUMERICAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS he results of the numerical studies are illustrated below in Figs. 5-9 and Tab. 3, 4, which shows the ultimate force, maximum deformation, materials behaviour, crack width evolution, failure mode and deformation ductility factor. This factor represents the ability of the materials to resist plastic deformation without significant stress reduction (Eq 5). u y     (5) T A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 26 μ: deformation ductility factor. Ԑu : ultimate deformation. Ԑy : elastic deformation. ID N° Pu (kN) Rate (%) Pu/REF Ԑy (mm) Ԑu (mm) 𝞵 Ductility factor Rate (%) Loss of ductility Failure mode REF 01 75.84 0% 5.74 39.04 6.80 0.00% Flexional failure SNSM-10 02 171.98 127% 6.76 33.36 4.94 27.35% Crushing of compressed concrete SNSM-12 03 194.57 157% 6.36 31.37 4.94 27.39% Crushing of compressed concrete NSM-10 04 201.71 166% 6.86 28.09 4.09 39.77% Concrete cover separation NSM-12 05 236.66 212% 6.63 26.95 4.06 40.22% Concrete cover separation EBR-10 06 195.48 158% 6.78 25.65 3.78 44.36% Debonding of the strengthening EBR-12 07 225.37 197% 6.78 24.11 3.56 47.67% Debonding of the strengthening Table 3: Summary of the numerical results. From Tab. 3, and Fig. 5, we can notice a significant improvement in the bending capacity for reinforced beams of about 127% for SNSM-10, 166% for NSM-10 and 158% for EBR-10 compared to the reference beam. This improvement can be explained by the increase in the internal lever arm of the reinforced sections. This increase varies from one technique to another depending on the position of the strengthening. It was also found that the increase in the cross-section of the strengthened has a positive influence on the bending strength of the beams strengthened in different ways from one technique to another. Where there is a gain rate of 30% in resistance increase compared to the reference beam and between SNSM-10 and SNSM-12, up to 46% between NSM-10 and NSM- 12, and 39%, between EBR-10 and EBR-12. Through Fig. 6, we can notice that all reinforced beams have lost about 40% to 47% of their ductility compared to the reference beam due to the absence of a plastic bearing in the case of the CFRP. elsewhere, SNSM-strengthened beams have lost about 27.35% and 27.39% for SNSM-10 and SNSM-12 respectively. Figure 5: Deformation/force curves of the numerical study. Figure 6: Comparison between the ductility factors of the modeled beams. 0 50 100 150 200 250 0 20 40 La o d  ( kN ) Deformation (mm) REF‐NUM SNSM‐10 NUM SNSM‐12 NUM NSM‐10 NUM NSM‐12 NUM EBR‐10 NUM EBR‐12 NUM Ԑy 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% R at e  o f  d u ct ili ty  f ac to r( 𝞵 ) A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 27 ID CONCRETE STEEL STRENGTHENING CFRP Ԑc (mm/m) Ԑcu (mm/m) Rate (%) Ԑs (mm/m) Ԑsu (mm/m) Rate (%) Ԑf (mm/m) Ԑfu (mm/m) Rate (%) REF NUM 2.40 ‰ 3.5 ‰ 68.50% 9.99 ‰ 10 ‰ 99.90% - - - SNSM-10 NUM 3.50 ‰ 3.5 ‰ 100% 9.00‰ 10 ‰ 90.00% 13.90 ‰ 17 ‰ 81.7% NSM-10 NUM 2.77 ‰ 3.5 ‰ 79.14% 7.77 ‰ 10 ‰ 77.70% 10.00 ‰ 17 ‰ 58.82% EBR-10 NUM 2.85 ‰ 3.5 ‰ 81.43 8.00 ‰ 10 ‰ 80.00% 8.80 ‰ 17 ‰ 51.76 % Table 4: Summary of materials deformation. Figure 7: Concrete compressive behaviour. A strengthening efficiency of 81.7% for the SNSM-10 NUM beam with full use of the concrete capacity in compression is shown in Tab. 4, and Fig. 7. These also show that the NSM-10 NUM and EBR-10 NUM beams had efficiency rates of 58% and 51% respectively are explained by the brittle failure modes of the two beams. Fig. 8 shows that the three techniques decreased the crack propagation compared to the reference beam for an average rate of 34%. Fig. 9(A) and Fig. 10(REF) show the strain distributions and the failure mode of the reference beam. This beam has undergone a typical bending failure, which manifested itself by cracks in the tensioned part, which starts to open from 8 kN (Fig. 08) and continues to propagate until the tensioned reinforcements are plasticized. The SNSM-10-NUM and SNSM-12-NUM beams that appeared in Fig. 9(B) and Fig. 10 (SNSM) has suffered a failure by crushing of the compressed concrete. The strengthening has allowed to reduce the first cracks where the first one appeared at 30 kN. 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 0 0,0005 0,001 0,0015 0,002 0,0025 0,003 0,0035 ST R ES S STRAIN  SNSM‐10 NUM REF NUM NSM‐10 NUM EBR‐10 NUM A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 28 Figure 8: Load–crack width. (A) REF Failure mode (B) SNSM Failure mode (C) NSM Failure mode (D) EBR Failure mode Figure 9: Comparison between the failure modes of numerical study and those found in the literature [18]. 0 0,5 1 1,5 2 2,5 3 3,5 4 4,5 0 50 100 150 200 C R C K  W ID TH  ( m m ) LOAD (kN) NSM‐10 NUM EBR‐10 NUM SNSM‐10 NUM REF NUM A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 29 Figure 10: The strain distributions and the failure modes of numerical study. A failure by concrete cover separation is shown in Fig. 9(C) and Fig.10(NSM), concerning NSM-10-NUM and NSM-12- NUM beams. This failure manifested itself quickly and abruptly with a debonding of the lower part and exposure of the steel reinforcement. This is due to the good adhesion of the strengthening and the strength of the interface between the concrete and the strengthening. This perfect adhesion causes the creation of two rigid bodies that separate at the bottom of the strengthening under tension. Fig. 9(D), and Fig. 10(EBR), show the failure mode of the beams EBR-10-NUM and EBR-12-NUM. This failure mode is manifested by the opening of a crack that begins to open in the concrete by stressing the FRP plate attached to it. The stresses created by the separation of the two ends of the crack cause horizontal cracking at the adhesive interface between the concrete and the strengthening. This cracking leads to the debonding of the strengthening. In fact, it is an intermediate crack induced by interfacial disbonding. ANALYTICAL STUDY his part is devoted to the development of an analytical model. The use of the stress diagram, the mechanical characteristics of the materials and the geometric characteristics of the sections is essential. Figure 11: Reinforced beam sections. T A. Boulebd et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 54 (2020) 21-35; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.54.02 30 The behaviour of a reinforced concrete beam subjected to bending can be schematized as shown in Fig. 12, [26]. Where the deformation force curve can be divided into three parts: Figure 12: Typical force deformation curve of a reinforced concrete beam subjected to bending. A- NON-CRACKED SECTION 0< M< MCR: The Force and the deformation (Pcr, ∆cr) representing this phase were calculated from the neutral axis ycr according to the balance of the static moments of the section. The moments Mcr and the inertia of the section Icr were calculated according to the transformed section method [26]:         3 2 22 ' '1 1 1 3 3 crcr cr cr f f cr b h yby I n A d y n A y d n A d ycr s s f            (6) with, As, A’s and Af the sections of the tensioned and compressed steels and the strengthening respectively, and df is the ultimate height of the strengthening. Whose values in the equation change from one strengthening techniques to another according to the strengthening position. Icr trMcr ycr   (7) with σtr is the tensile stresses of the concert. 2McrPcr La  (8)    2 2 2 3 4 24 P Lcr a L Lcu aE Ic cr    (9) Ec is the concrete elasticity modulus; La is the distance between the support and the applied force point and L the span between supports. A. 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