CN214170013U - Carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure - Google Patents

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CN214170013U
CN214170013U CN202022696950.6U CN202022696950U CN214170013U CN 214170013 U CN214170013 U CN 214170013U CN 202022696950 U CN202022696950 U CN 202022696950U CN 214170013 U CN214170013 U CN 214170013U
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The utility model discloses a carbon fiber reinforcement steel bar structure belongs to the building technology field. The carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure comprises a bottom plate, a reinforced concrete beam and a hexagonal long rod, wherein U-shaped carbon fiber cloth is bonded at the left end, the right end and the lower end of the reinforced concrete beam, sliding grooves are formed in the left end and the right end of the reinforced concrete beam, clamping blocks are connected inside the two sliding grooves in a sliding mode, one ends, far away from the sliding grooves, of the two clamping blocks are fixedly connected with fastening plates, in the carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure, the inner hexagonal groove cylinder drives the second conical gear to rotate and simultaneously drives the two first conical gears to rotate, the two first conical gears respectively drive the first threaded rod and the second threaded rod to rotate, thereby drive two driving plates and be close to the motion each other, drive two mounting plates and tightly laminate the both ends of controlling of living U type carbon fiber cloth, further consolidate the bonding of U type carbon fiber cloth and reinforced concrete roof beam to improve reinforced concrete roof beam's bearing capacity.

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Carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a building technical field, more specifically say, relate to a carbon fiber reinforcement steel bar structure.
Background
The carbon fiber is a special fiber consisting of carbon element. The graphite fiber has the characteristics of high temperature resistance, friction resistance, electric conduction, heat conduction, corrosion resistance and the like, is fibrous and soft in appearance, can be processed into various fabrics, and has high strength and modulus along the fiber axis direction due to the preferred orientation of the graphite microcrystalline structure along the fiber axis. The carbon fibers have a low density and thus a high specific strength and a high specific modulus. The carbon fiber is mainly used as a reinforcing material to be compounded with resin, metal, ceramic, carbon and the like to manufacture an advanced composite material. The specific strength and the specific modulus of the carbon fiber reinforced epoxy resin composite material are the highest in the existing engineering materials.
The reinforcing technology of the bonded carbon fiber structure refers to that a high-performance binder is adopted to bond carbon fiber cloth on the surface of a building structural member, so that the carbon fiber cloth and the building structural member work together, the bearing capacity of the structural member is improved, the purposes of reinforcing and strengthening a building are achieved, the epoxy resin bonding layer between concrete and carbon fiber is easy to cause bonding damage, the carbon fiber is added with the inherent limit, excessive bonding can cause the interface to transfer enough shear stress, the strength of the carbon fiber can not be fully utilized, and the bonding damage is easy to occur when the member bears a large load.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
1. Technical problem to be solved
To the problem that exists among the prior art, the utility model aims to provide a carbon fiber reinforcement steel bar structure, it can follow the outer pressure of exerting of carbon fiber, further consolidates carbon fiber and reinforced concrete's bonding.
2. Technical scheme
In order to solve the above problem, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme:
a carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure comprises a bottom plate, a reinforced concrete beam and a hexagonal long rod, wherein the left end, the right end and the lower end of the reinforced concrete beam are respectively bonded with U-shaped carbon fiber cloth, the left end and the right end of the reinforced concrete beam are respectively provided with a sliding groove, the insides of the two sliding grooves are respectively connected with a fixture block in a sliding manner, one ends of the two fixture blocks, which are far away from the sliding grooves, are respectively fixedly connected with a fastening plate, the lower ends of the two fastening plates are respectively fixedly connected with a group of connecting rods, the other two connecting rods are respectively provided with two, the inside of the bottom plate is provided with two long strip holes, each group of connecting rods is respectively inserted into the two long strip holes, the lower ends of the two groups of connecting rods are respectively fixedly connected with a transmission plate, the lower end of the bottom plate is fixedly connected with a working cover, the lower inner wall of the working cover is provided with a rotating rod in a penetrating manner, the lower end of the rotating rod is fixedly connected with an inner hexagonal groove cylinder, the upper end fixedly connected with second conical gear of dwang, the left inner wall of work cover runs through and is provided with the second threaded rod, the right inner wall of work cover runs through and is provided with first threaded rod, first threaded rod and second threaded rod are located the first conical gear of the equal fixedly connected with of inboard one end of work cover, the second conical gear is connected with two first conical gear meshing, two fixed blocks of lower extreme fixedly connected with of bottom plate, two the driving plate is located the inboard of fixed block, the left side the fixed block is rotated with the left end of second threaded rod and is connected, the right side the fixed block is rotated with the right-hand member of first threaded rod and is connected, the left side driving plate and second threaded rod threaded connection, right side driving plate and first threaded rod threaded connection.
As a preferred scheme of the utility model, two square plates of upper end fixedly connected with of bottom plate, the square plate is close to the one end fixedly connected with spring of U type carbon fiber cloth, the one end fixedly connected with extrusion piece of spring, extrusion piece and the laminating of U type carbon fiber cloth mutually.
As a preferred scheme of the utility model, the lower extreme fixedly connected with gyro wheel of fixture block, the lower extreme of gyro wheel is laminated with the end inner wall of sliding tray mutually.
As an optimized scheme of the utility model, the circumference fixed surface of dwang is connected with the spacing ring, the lower extreme of spacing ring is laminated mutually with the end inner wall of work cover.
As a preferred scheme of the utility model, interior hexagonal groove has been seted up to interior hexagonal groove cylindrical lower extreme, the hexagonal stock is pegged graft in interior equal hexagonal inslot.
As a preferred scheme of the utility model, two the lower extreme of mounting plate all laminates mutually with the upper end of bottom plate, two the driving plate all laminates mutually with the lower extreme of bottom plate.
3. Advantageous effects
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a carbon fiber reinforcement steel bar structure has following beneficial effect:
(1) this carbon fiber reinforced bar structure, hexagonal socket cylinder passes through the dwang and drives second conical gear and rotate, second conical gear can drive two first conical gear rotations simultaneously, two first conical gear drive first threaded rod and second threaded rod respectively and rotate, first threaded rod and second threaded rod rotate and can drive two driving plates and be close to the motion each other, two driving plates pass through the connecting rod and slide in rectangular hole, can drive two tights and tightly laminate and live both ends about U type carbon fiber cloth, pressure is applyed from the outside of U type carbon fiber cloth to two tights, further consolidate the bonding of U type carbon fiber cloth and reinforced concrete roof beam, thereby improve the bearing capacity of reinforced concrete roof beam.
(2) This carbon fiber reinforced reinforcement steel structure, two mounting plates are in the left and right sides motion of U type carbon fiber cloth, and under the restoring force effect of the spring that is in compression state, pressure is applyed to the mounting plate to a plurality of extrusion pieces for the laminating that the mounting plate can be more stable is in the outside of U type carbon fiber cloth.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the point A in FIG. 1 according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the present invention at B in FIG. 1;
fig. 4 is a bottom view of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a side view of the present invention.
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1. a base plate; 2. extruding the block; 3. u-shaped carbon fiber cloth; 4. a square plate; 5. a spring; 6. a sliding groove; 7. a fastening plate; 8. a clamping block; 9. a reinforced concrete beam; 10. a fixed block; 11. a connecting rod; 12. a strip hole; 13. a hexagonal long rod; 14. a hexagonal socket cylinder; 15. a drive plate; 16. a roller; 17. a first threaded rod; 18. a working cover; 19. a second threaded rod; 20. a first conical gear; 21. rotating the rod; 22. a limiting ring; 23. a second conical gear.
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The technical solution in the embodiment of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiment of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all embodiments, and all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without any inventive work are within the scope of the present invention based on the embodiments of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "inner", "outer", "top/bottom", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted", "provided", "sleeved/connected", "connected", and the like are to be understood in a broad sense, such as "connected", which may be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.
Example (b):
referring to fig. 1-5, a carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure comprises a bottom plate 1, a reinforced concrete beam 9 and a hexagonal long rod 13, wherein U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3 is bonded to the left and right ends and the lower end of the reinforced concrete beam 9, sliding grooves 6 are formed in the left and right ends of the reinforced concrete beam 9, clamping blocks 8 are slidably connected to the insides of the two sliding grooves 6, fastening plates 7 are fixedly connected to the ends of the two clamping blocks 8 away from the sliding grooves 6, a group of connecting rods 11 are fixedly connected to the lower ends of the two fastening plates 7, two connecting rods 11 are arranged in the group, two strip holes 12 are formed in the bottom plate 1, each group of connecting rods 11 is respectively inserted into the two strip holes 12, driving plates 15 are fixedly connected to the lower ends of the two groups of connecting rods 11, a working cover 18 is fixedly connected to the lower end of the bottom plate 1, and a rotating, hexagonal groove cylinder 14 in the lower extreme fixedly connected with of dwang 21, the upper end fixedly connected with second conical gear 23 of dwang 21, the left inner wall of work cover 18 runs through and is provided with second threaded rod 19, the right inner wall of work cover 18 runs through and is provided with first threaded rod 17, first threaded rod 17 and the equal first conical gear 20 of fixedly connected with of one end that second threaded rod 19 is located work cover 18 inboard, second conical gear 23 is connected with the meshing of two first conical gear 20, two fixed blocks 10 of lower extreme fixedly connected with of bottom plate 1, two driving plates 15 are located the inboard of fixed block 10, left side fixed block 10 rotates with the left end of second threaded rod 19 to be connected, right side fixed block 10 rotates with the right-hand member of first threaded rod 17 to be connected, left side driving plate 15 and the 19 threaded connection of second threaded rod, right side driving plate 15 and the 17 threaded connection of first threaded rod.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the upper end of the bottom plate 1 is attached to the lower side of the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3, two connecting rods 11 are connected to the lower sides of the two fastening plates 7, the lower ends of each of the two connecting rods 11 are connected to a driving plate 15, the driving plate 15 drives the fastening plate 7 to move through the two connecting rods 11 when moving, the threads of the first threaded rod 17 and the second threaded rod 19 are opposite, when the hexagonal socket cylinder 14 rotates, the hexagonal socket cylinder 14 drives the second conical gear 23 to rotate through the rotating rod 21, the second conical gear 23 drives the two first conical gears 20 to rotate at the same time, the two first conical gears 20 respectively drive the first threaded rod 17 and the second threaded rod 19 to rotate, the first threaded rod 17 and the second threaded rod 19 rotate to drive the two driving plates 15 to move close to each other, the two driving plates 15 slide in the elongated hole 12 through the connecting rods 11, can drive two mounting plates 7 close the laminating and live both ends about U type carbon fiber cloth 3, two mounting plates 7 exert pressure from the outside of U type carbon fiber cloth 3, further consolidate the bonding of U type carbon fiber cloth 3 and reinforced concrete roof beam 9, and fixture block 8 slides in sliding tray 6, and the effect is the position of adjustment mounting plate 7 for mounting plate 7 can be preferentially crowded and is pushed down U type carbon fiber cloth 3 and reinforced concrete roof beam 9 and will break away from the part that bonds soon.
Specifically, please refer to fig. 1, two square plates 4 are fixedly connected to the upper end of the bottom plate 1, a spring 5 is fixedly connected to one end of the square plate 4 close to the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3, an extrusion block 2 is fixedly connected to one end of the spring 5, and the extrusion block 2 is attached to the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3.
In this embodiment, two square boards 4 are symmetrical about the vertical central line of bottom plate 1, and spring 5 is in compression state, and the restoring force acts on extrusion block 2, and a plurality of extrusion blocks 2 exert pressure to mounting plate 7 for mounting plate 7 can be more stable the laminating in the outside of U type carbon fiber cloth 3.
Specifically, please refer to fig. 2, the lower end of the clamping block 8 is fixedly connected with a roller 16, and the lower end of the roller 16 is attached to the bottom inner wall of the sliding groove 6.
In this embodiment, the roller 16 rolls on the bottom inner wall of the sliding groove 6, so that the latch 8 can slide in the sliding groove 6 more easily.
Specifically, referring to fig. 3, a limiting ring 22 is fixedly connected to the circumferential surface of the rotating rod 21, and the lower end of the limiting ring 22 is attached to the bottom inner wall of the working cover 18.
In this embodiment, the limiting ring 22 is used to stabilize the position of the second bevel gear 23 so that the second bevel gear 23 does not separate from the two first bevel gears 20.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 4, an inner hexagonal groove is formed at the lower end of the inner hexagonal groove column 14, and the hexagonal long rod 13 is inserted into the inner hexagonal groove.
In this embodiment, the long hexagonal rod 13 is inserted into the inner hexagonal groove, and the long hexagonal rod 13 can be rotated, so that the inner hexagonal groove column 14 can be screwed in a labor-saving manner.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the lower ends of the two fastening plates 7 are attached to the upper end of the bottom plate 1, and the two transmission plates 15 are attached to the lower end of the bottom plate 1.
In this embodiment, when two driving plates 15 move to the left and right edges of the strip hole 12, the fixture block 8 cannot be separated from the sliding groove 6, and the fixture block 8 can be clamped in the sliding groove 6, so that the bottom plate 1 cannot fall.
The working principle is as follows: an operator inserts the hexagonal long rod 13 into the inner hexagonal groove cylinder 14, at the moment, the two fastening plates 7 are not tightly attached to the left side and the right side of the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3, the parts of the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3 and the reinforced concrete beam 9 which are not bonded are found, the sliding groove 6 below the clamping block 8 rolls on the bottom inner wall of the roller 16, the bottom plate 1 can be moved to the loosened parts in a labor-saving manner, the hexagonal long rod 13 is rotated, the hexagonal long rod 13 drives the inner hexagonal groove cylinder 14 to rotate, the inner hexagonal groove cylinder 14 drives the second conical gear 23 to rotate through the rotating rod 21, the second conical gear 23 can simultaneously drive the two first conical gears 20 to rotate, the two first conical gears 20 respectively drive the first threaded rod 17 and the second threaded rod 19 to rotate, the first threaded rod 17 and the second threaded rod 19 rotate to drive the two transmission plates 15 to move close to each other, the two transmission plates 15 slide in the elongated hole 12 through the connecting rod 11, the two fastening plates 7 can be driven to tightly fit the left end and the right end of the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3, the two fastening plates 7 apply pressure from the outer side of the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3 to further reinforce the bonding between the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3 and the reinforced concrete beam 9, thereby improving the bearing capacity of the reinforced concrete beam 9, while the two fastening plates 7 move to the left and right ends of the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3, the plurality of pressing blocks 2 apply pressure to the fastening plates 7 by the restoring force of the springs 5 in a compressed state, so that the fastening plate 7 can be attached to the outer side of the U-shaped carbon fiber cloth 3 more stably, the control mode of the utility model is controlled by manually starting and closing the switch, the wiring diagram of the power element and the supply of the power supply belong to the common knowledge in the field, and the utility model discloses mainly be used for protecting mechanical device, so the utility model discloses no longer explain control mode and wiring in detail.
The above description is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can substitute or change the technical solution and the improvement concept of the present invention within the technical scope disclosed in the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure, includes bottom plate (1), reinforced concrete roof beam (9) and hexagonal stock (13), its characterized in that: the reinforced concrete beam is characterized in that U-shaped carbon fiber cloth (3) is bonded to the left end, the right end and the lower end of the reinforced concrete beam (9), sliding grooves (6) are formed in the left end and the right end of the reinforced concrete beam (9), two clamping blocks (8) are connected to the inner portions of the two sliding grooves (6) in a sliding mode, one end, far away from the sliding grooves (6), of each clamping block (8) is fixedly connected with a fastening plate (7), the lower end of each fastening plate (7) is fixedly connected with a group of connecting rods (11), the number of the connecting rods (11) is two, two strip holes (12) are formed in the bottom plate (1), each group of the connecting rods (11) is respectively inserted into the two strip holes (12), the lower ends of the two groups of the connecting rods (11) are fixedly connected with a driving plate (15), the lower end of the bottom plate (1) is fixedly connected with a working cover (18), and a rotating rod (21) penetrates through the lower inner wall of the working cover (18), hexagonal groove cylinder (14) in the lower extreme fixedly connected with of dwang (21), the upper end fixedly connected with second conical gear (23) of dwang (21), the left inner wall of work cover (18) is run through and is provided with second threaded rod (19), the right inner wall of work cover (18) is run through and is provided with first threaded rod (17), first threaded rod (17) and second threaded rod (19) are located the equal fixedly connected with first conical gear (20) of one end of work cover (18) inboard, second conical gear (23) are connected with two first conical gear (20) meshing, two fixed block (10) of lower extreme fixedly connected with of bottom plate (1), two driving plate (15) are located the inboard of fixed block (10), the left side fixed block (10) are connected with the left end rotation of second threaded rod (19), the right side fixed block (10) are connected with the right-hand member rotation of first threaded rod (17), the left side drive plate (15) and second threaded rod (19) threaded connection, the right side drive plate (15) and first threaded rod (17) threaded connection.
2. The carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure according to claim 1, wherein: the upper end fixedly connected with of bottom plate (1) two square boards (4), one end fixedly connected with spring (5) that square board (4) are close to U type carbon fiber cloth (3), the one end fixedly connected with extrusion piece (2) of spring (5), extrusion piece (2) and U type carbon fiber cloth (3) laminate mutually.
3. The carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure according to claim 1, wherein: the lower end of the clamping block (8) is fixedly connected with a roller (16), and the lower end of the roller (16) is attached to the inner wall of the bottom of the sliding groove (6).
4. The carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure according to claim 1, wherein: the circumference fixed surface of dwang (21) is connected with spacing ring (22), the lower extreme of spacing ring (22) is laminated mutually with the end inner wall of work cover (18).
5. The carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure according to claim 1, wherein: an inner hexagonal groove is formed in the lower end of the inner hexagonal groove cylinder (14), and the hexagonal long rod (13) is inserted into the inner uniform hexagonal groove.
6. The carbon fiber reinforced steel bar structure according to claim 1, wherein: the lower extreme of two mounting plate (7) all laminates mutually with the upper end of bottom plate (1), two driving plate (15) all laminates mutually with the lower extreme of bottom plate (1).
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