EP2513390B1 - Construction system for strengthening an existing structure with tension sheets and a respective anchoring device and method therefore - Google Patents
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- structural members such as walls, beams or columns, in buildings or bridges, or other structural systems are often required to resist uplifting tensile forces and bending moments resulting from overturning actions caused by loads imposed on the structure due to its occupancy or external environmental actions, especially from the lateral loads of strong wind and earthquakes.
- structural members such as walls, beams or columns, in buildings or bridges, or other structural systems are often required to resist uplifting tensile forces and bending moments resulting from overturning actions caused by loads imposed on the structure due to its occupancy or external environmental actions, especially from the lateral loads of strong wind and earthquakes.
- There is a large inventory of old infrastructures that require repair or strengthening, rehabilitation or retrofit to restore or enhance their load carrying capacities to a required performance level, in order to ensure their safe use and operation.
- a practical and promising means to increase the tensile load or bending moment capacity of a structural member consists in adding external surfaced bonded reinforcing materials thereto.
- Thin steel plates or sheets were used for this purpose in the past. More recently since the 1990s, FRP sheets have been proved to be an attractive alternative to steel plates.
- the FRP alternatives are typically of the types of carbon (CFRP), glass (GFRP) or aramid (AFRP) fiber reinforced polymers.
- CFRP carbon
- GFRP glass
- AFRP aramid
- SRP steel reinforced polymers
- All material types above have the advantages of high strength, light weight and excellent corrosion resistance compared to conventional reinforcing steel.
- the strengthening of a structure by means of a FRP reinforcing device may consist in bonding FRP sheets to the surface of the structural member by applying epoxy or other adhesives.
- the load carried by the FRP sheets must be transferred safely to said supporting member or foundation. Consequently, an anchoring device is incorporated in order to transfer this load suitably for insuring the effectiveness of the strengthening system.
- a well known anchoring device consists of an L-shaped angle anchor, wherein the first leg is parallel to the FRP reinforced structural member and the other leg is parallel to the surface of the supporting element.
- the FRP sheet is wrapped around the outer surfaces of both legs.
- Hall et al. III Ductile Anchorage for Connecting FRP Strengthening of Under-Reinforced Masonry Buildings” in Journal of Composites of Construction, ASCE, February 2002, 3-10 .
- the main disadvantage of this anchoring device is focused on the eccentricity between the loading direction and the hold down of the L-shaped angle. Indeed, it generates a large out-of-plane distortion of the FRP sheet from its loading plane, which finally leads to a reduced load carrying capacity of the strengthening scheme, especially under cyclic load loadings.
- NSM Near Surface Mounted
- GB 2 163 473 A of CEE PAPWORTH LIMITED teaches the provision of an anchoring device and a respective strap, for strengthening a structure.
- the reinforcing sheet is bonded on the supported structure nor that the anchor extends over the whole width of said reinforcing sheet.
- the present invention aims at remedying the drawbacks set out above, thereby further improving the resistance of a structure by providing an anchoring device for a surface bonded sheet, in particular a construction system for strengthening an existing structure with tension sheets made of FRP provided in the direction of extension of said existing structure and a respective anchoring device.
- a constructive arrangement consisting of a construction structure as defined in main claim 1, thereby comprising at least one structural member, resp. support element connectively cooperating with each other, further comprising at least one anchoring device, wherein said structural member is supported on said support element by its bottom surface, its adjoining lateral surfaces extending therefrom along a longitudinal axis thereof.
- Said construction structure is remarkable in that it further comprises sheet means for connectively securing said mutual connectively cooperation between said structural member and said support element, which is delimitated by a bottom, top and a pair of lateral sides. At said top side, it has bonding means for bonding said sheet means at its top side onto said active lateral surface of said structural member so that said sheet is connected with said structural element.
- Said sheet means is connected at its opposite bottom side to said structural element by actively cooperating therewith, by means of said anchoring device.
- the latter consists of a holder means extending at least over the whole bottom side of said sheet and of fastening means for anchoring said holder means to said support element, in order to improve its resistance by resisting additional forces.
- Said sheet means is thus connectively cooperating with said structural support element in order to transfer the additional forces onto said structural support element.
- Said additional forces are essentially tensile forces that are all directed in one single direction which is oriented longitudinally defined as the length direction of said sheet, wherein said holder means is located substantially in a tangent plane of the sheet bottom edge.
- an anchoring device wherein firstly said sheet is bonded onto the structural member of said constructive arrangement in order to improve its resistance by resisting additional forces, and secondly anchored to a structural support element thereof in order to transfer the additional forces onto said structural support element.
- the developed forces are transferred from the bonded sheet to the supporting member, such as a foundation, in a safe and easily predictable manner.
- said shaft means of the anchoring device extends substantially in a plane of the sheet, which allows improving the resistance of the construction structure which thus gets reinforced thanks to the invention.
- the anchoring device is thus used for strengthening applications, like transferring new forces due to the strengthening scheme.
- said system proposed according to the invention is remarkable in that said anchoring device consists in a shaft extending at least over the whole width of said sheet and a fastening means aimed to lock said shaft to said structural element, and in that the shaft is substantially in the plane of the sheet.
- said anchoring device is arranged in an elastically and plastically deformable bonding assembly with said sheets so that said device has an elastic-plastic behaviour.
- the anchoring device included in a construction system according to the invention thus allows combining the two characteristics to secure anchoring of the strengthening scheme and of its elastic-plastic behaviour, thus defining a so-called Hybrid Anchoring Device abridged hereinafter as "H.A.D.”
- said holder means of the anchoring device consists of a shaft, preferably a cylinder, thus allowing said sheet means to be wrapped around said holder means smoothly and fairly uniformly.
- said sheet is wrapped around said shaft with a solid section or consisting of a tube with a circular outer surface, in particular arranged horizontally, i.e. extending substantially in parallel to said support element, and having its said fastening means provided along the longitudinal axis thereof, for providing a smooth contact with the reinforcing sheet passing around it, in particular wherein said sheet is wrapped around said rod.
- said fastening means consist in lock-down fixation means provided at each end of said holder means, more particularly a vertical anchor bolt or cylinder shaft e.g. of steel, mounted through the centre thereof, which is held securely by said lock-down means which, in turn, is embedded or anchored in the structural support member.
- said bonding means consist of a bonding strip, in particular extending in parallel to said holder means.
- said sheet means is a reinforcement sheet, in particular made of a fiber reinforced polymer.
- said fibers are carbon, glass or aramid fibers.
- said fibers are steel fibers.
- said reinforcing sheet is made of steel.
- said sheet is a plate or a shell.
- it further comprises a steel plate for pressing the reinforcing sheet on said support element or on said structural member. It may exist a metallic or non metallic plate which pushes the reinforcing sheet onto the structural element's surface.
- Said composite or steel or other metallic or non-metallic material, reinforcing sheet, plate or shell is bonded to the surface of the structural member, and optionally, to the supporting member, and it passes underneath the outer circular surface of the tube or shaft by wrapping it or just bonding it.
- its constructive members may have an overall block shape, with the top one being elongated and extending substantially upright along said longitudinal axis.
- the bottom one may have a flattened profile, both in a mutually aligned arrangement.
- it is substantially symmetrical, particularly respective a central plane of symmetry extending substantially upright so as to include said longitudinal axis, thereby defining at least two symmetrical parts, each including one said anchoring device actively connecting elastically said constructive members within each said symmetrical part.
- the anchoring device thanks to the anchoring device according to the invention, two features are remarkably combined: the secure anchoring of the strengthening scheme and the elastic-plastic behaviour of the anchoring device, wherein this behaviour could be achieved by the yieldingness of the metallic or non-metallic materials which are the horizontal shaft and basically the lock-down means. Due to this behaviour, the stress distribution on the composite or steel or other metallic or non-metallic material, reinforcing sheet, plate or shell is becoming more distributed, which results in a better use of the composite material. Finally, by using the so-called Hybrid Anchoring Device, an elastic strengthening method is becoming inelastic, more ductile.
- the invention thus allows the composite, metallic or non-metallic materials to fully utilize their high strength without premature failure.
- the present invention allows solving the problem of anchoring externally bonded composite, steel or other materials, metallic or non metallic, to structural support elements in concrete or steel. It enables the developed forces to be transported on said latter materials, composite or steel or other metallic or non metallic materials, to healthy concrete or steel blocks.
- the present invention thus combines the use of a reinforcement sheet with an anchoring device with an inelastic behaviour due to the yielding either of said holder means or of said fastening means.
- an anchoring device allowing an easy installation, without the need to employ new or advanced technology to manufacture or use.
- a further notable advantage of the invention consists in its fairly universal profile enabling the application of the anchoring mechanism to a wide variety of structures, which may be made of quite different materials and shapes, such as reinforced concrete, steel or masonry structures, structural members with a flat surface, such as straight walls and square columns, and structural members with a curved surface, such as curved walls and circular columns.
- said structure is an existing structure, and said sheet a reinforcement sheet.
- the present invention also relates to an anchoring method for a surface bonded sheet for improving the resistance of a structure, wherein said sheet is bonded onto the surface of a structural member of said structure in order to improve its resistance by resisting additional forces, and anchored to a structural element of said structure in order to transfer the additional forces onto said structural element, wherein said additional forces are essentially tensile forces all in one single direction being defined as the length of said sheet.
- Said method is remarkable in that a shaft extending at least over the whole width of said sheet is locked to said structural element by a fastening means, and in that the shaft is substantially in the plane of the sheet.
- the rod, the fastening means and the sheet once assembled are elastically and plastically deformed in such a way that the stress distribution in said rod, fastening means and sheet in the working situation is significantly better than the stress distribution in said rod, fastening means and sheet immediately after its installation on said structure.
- said stress distribution is first measured in said working situation of said device and afterwards immediately after its installation on said structure, both being compared.
- the present invention generally relates to a construction system comprising an anchoring device for strengthening structures, wherein conventional structural reinforcing materials are used.
- the surface reinforcing agent is e.g. a surface reinforcing sheet 3. It could be a plate or a shell as well. Its composition may be of non-metal or metal.
- the structural reinforcing material is preferably made of composite materials known as FRP.
- Fig. 1 shows a preferred embodiment of said construction system incorporating said anchoring device 4 wherein the developed load is transferred from the FRP sheet 3 to a supporting member or foundation 6, through the anchoring device 4.
- the main advantage thereof is that said anchoring device 4 offers a confident prediction and a safe transfer of the forces.
- Said sheet 3 is bonded to the surface of the strengthening structural member 5 shown vertical in Fig. 1 e.g. by epoxy or any other conventional bonding materials.
- the anchoring device 4 is thus attached to the supporting member 6.
- Fig. 2 shows an enlarged detailed view of said anchoring device 4 for providing structural reinforcement with said composite FRP sheet 3.
- Said sheet 3 is wrapped around the outer surface of a horizontal holder means 1 consisting of a shaft, preferably circular, thus transferring the load carried by said sheet 3 to the anchoring device 4 and further through its fastening means 2.
- the latter consist of bolts engaged vertically in corresponding holes 8, e.g. metallic bolts. Said load is thus transferred to the supporting member 6 or foundation.
- Said holder means 1 may also consist of a tube, e.g. cylindrical.
- the structural member 5 is a concrete or steel structural element
- the supporting member 6 is a foundation, also composed of concrete or steel.
- the sheet 3 is transferring the forces to the horizontal circular holder 1, which in turn is transferring those forces to said fastening means 2 of the anchoring device 4.
- Said fastening means 2 may also consist of a pair of rods 2 arranged vertically through the shaft 3 and acting as vertical anchors 2 for said device 4, which may be made of non metal as well.
- those vertical anchors 2 are transferring those forces to the supporting structural element or foundation 6 as shown in Fig. 1 .
- the vertical anchors 2 can be either steel or other metallic bolts, or even regular structural reinforcing bars.
- the anchoring can be established with the use of an epoxy material which is placed between the vertical anchors 2 and the foundation 6. Alternatively, it may also be achieved with mechanical means like welding or screwing and the like.
- the developed forces may thus be considered as acting parallel to said composite sheet 3 as well as to the Hybrid Anchoring Device 4 abridged as HAD, which results in a both safe and easy prediction. Also this arrangement of the forces results in the safe and easy fabrication of the strengthening scheme.
- the anchoring device 4 is illustrated with the following strengthening example of a vertical structural member 5.
- the design load of the anchoring device 4 is the load that the CFRP sheet 3 applies thereto 4 in a vertical structural element 5 loaded at the top by a lateral force.
- the dimensions of the anchoring device 4 are selected so that the maximum stress therein 4 under the design load does not exceed the yield stress of the material thereof 4.
- the anchoring device 4 also shown under a different observation angle in Fig. 5 is designed by using Mechanics of Material simple laws.
- a 40 mm diameter steel horizontal solid shaft 1 is chosen with 18 mm diameter vertical steel bolts 2.
- the thickness of the CFRP sheet 3 is equal to 0,34 mm.
- the design of the strengthening scheme is done in a way that the CFRP will fail. In this way, the maximum capacity of the CFRP will be utilized.
- the diameter of the steel horizontal shaft 1 may vary between 10 mm and 200 mm according to overall capacity that is demanded by the design of the strengthening scheme. This diameter range may be bigger or smaller in accordance with the needs as well as for the vertical steel bolts 2 and the CFRP 3.
- Fig. 6 shows an example of the experimental setup thereof. It consists in a baseplate 6 about 1 m in square and 300 mm thick on which a structural member 5 is fixed, about 1400 mm long, and with a 500 mm square section. Hydraulic pistons 11 are installed on top and on a side face near the top of said structural member 5, in order to allow applying vertical resp. horizontal forces on it. Load cells 12 are installed near the application point of said pistons 11 in order to measure the applied forces. Displacement sensors 13 (LVDT) measure the horizontal displacement of the upper end of the structural member 5, and the vertical uplift of the reinforcement sheet and/or the said member.
- LVDT Displacement sensors 13
- Fig. 7 shows the use of the present invention as a means of a strengthening system results to an increase of the structural's member capacity equal to 100%. More specifically, the Virgin Pier, which is the Pier without the Hybrid Anchoring Device 4 resulted to a maximum horizontal load equal to 37 kN, whereas the 24 mm-Pier resulted to a maximum horizontal load equal to 75 kN. The 24 mm-Pier corresponds to a Pier which was imposed to a maximum horizontal displacement equal to 24 mm with HAD 4 attached on it. The use of the present anchoring device 4 resulted in an increase of the ultimate horizontal displacement as well. It was increased from 15 mm to 29 mm, due to the plasticity of the device. The present anchoring device 4 is qualified as "Hybrid" due to the fact that it combines the secure anchoring of the strengthening scheme, offering at the same time to a structure an increase of the ductility due to its plasticisation.
- Fig. 8 and 9 show said Hybrid Anchoring Device with a different orientation, not claimed by the application.
- the reinforcing sheet 3 is wrapped around the anchoring holder 1 but at this case the fastening means 2 are carrying the anchoring holder 1 through the steel plate 9.
- Fig. 10 indicates another application of said Hybrid Anchoring Device not claimed by the application, for shear strengthening of structural members.
- the reinforcing sheet 3 is attached on the concrete surface of the structural member 5.
- the reinforcing sheet is also wrapped around the anchoring holder 1.
- the fastening means 2 are being placed vertically to the reinforcing sheet 3 and a steel plate 9 is finally placed for applying vertical pressure on the sheet 3 and holding at the same time the anchoring holder 1.
- the application of the anchoring device of the present invention is not limited to anchoring application of bonded FRP sheet.
- the structural and/or supporting surfaces can be reinforced with bonded or unbonded reinforcing plate or shell made of FRP or steel or other metallic or non-metallic materials.
- Said anchoring device is not limited to retrofitting or repairing of existing structures, such as seismic upgrade of structural and supporting walls. Any new building structures may incorporate the present invention, so as to provide for improved structural reinforcements.
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- The present invention relates to a construction structure or system with strengthening anchoring device in a construction for strengthening same, actually in the industry of strengthening existent structures.
- At first, existing old structures, like bridges, buildings, silos, need strengthening in order to sustain the increasing demand loads or new design codes. In addition, some of the existing structures are deteriorated due to their age or environmental conditions resulting in that they need strengthening as well.
- Many so-called R/C Reinforced Concrete structures need strengthening because they were built according to old seismic codes, thereby not meeting the requirements of new codes. The reason may also be that they are damaged after a strong earthquake sequence. One of the basic parameters of strengthening using so-called FRP -fiber reinforced polymer- layers externally, is the efficient anchorage of these polymer sheets to the concrete parts for the desired transfer of the tensile forces that develope on these layers. Thus the satisfactory behaviour of the anchorage scheme becomes very important since said FRP layers can withstand by themselves a high level of tensile forces. An effective anchorage of the FRP layers can be used to exploit the strengthening potential of such FRP layers and to prevent the neutralization of the FRP layers strengthening contribution that would result from the premature failure of their anchoring.
- Besides, structural members such as walls, beams or columns, in buildings or bridges, or other structural systems are often required to resist uplifting tensile forces and bending moments resulting from overturning actions caused by loads imposed on the structure due to its occupancy or external environmental actions, especially from the lateral loads of strong wind and earthquakes. There is a large inventory of old infrastructures that require repair or strengthening, rehabilitation or retrofit to restore or enhance their load carrying capacities to a required performance level, in order to ensure their safe use and operation.
- A practical and promising means to increase the tensile load or bending moment capacity of a structural member consists in adding external surfaced bonded reinforcing materials thereto. Thin steel plates or sheets were used for this purpose in the past. More recently since the 1990s, FRP sheets have been proved to be an attractive alternative to steel plates. The FRP alternatives are typically of the types of carbon (CFRP), glass (GFRP) or aramid (AFRP) fiber reinforced polymers. Even more recently, steel reinforced polymers (SRP) have been introduced as a further alternative material type. All material types above have the advantages of high strength, light weight and excellent corrosion resistance compared to conventional reinforcing steel.
- The strengthening of a structure by means of a FRP reinforcing device may consist in bonding FRP sheets to the surface of the structural member by applying epoxy or other adhesives. At the boundaries of the structural member to its supporting member or foundation, the load carried by the FRP sheets must be transferred safely to said supporting member or foundation. Consequently, an anchoring device is incorporated in order to transfer this load suitably for insuring the effectiveness of the strengthening system.
- It is generally referred hereinafter to a "Guide for the design and construction of concrete reinforced with FRP bars" of American Concrete Institute Committee of 2001, ACI 440.1 R-01, Farmington Hills.
- In the past, anchoring devices were yet introduced for the aforementioned purpose. A well known anchoring device consists of an L-shaped angle anchor, wherein the first leg is parallel to the FRP reinforced structural member and the other leg is parallel to the surface of the supporting element. The FRP sheet is wrapped around the outer surfaces of both legs. Reference is made here to Hall et al. III "Ductile Anchorage for Connecting FRP Strengthening of Under-Reinforced Masonry Buildings" in Journal of Composites of Construction, ASCE, February 2002, 3-10. The main disadvantage of this anchoring device is focused on the eccentricity between the loading direction and the hold down of the L-shaped angle. Indeed, it generates a large out-of-plane distortion of the FRP sheet from its loading plane, which finally leads to a reduced load carrying capacity of the strengthening scheme, especially under cyclic load loadings.
- Another drawback of retrofitting using FRP is the problem caused by debonding of the FRP sheet from said supporting member or foundation. First reference is made to Nanni et al. "Anchorage of Surface Mounted FRP Reinforcement" in Concrete International: Design and Construction, Vol. 21, No. 10, October 1999, pp. 49-54 with his attempt to employ a U-shaped anchor in order to prevent such debonding in beams reinforced with FRP sheets. The desired achievement is to develop anchoring force in the U-anchor by embedment of the FRP sheet. For this purpose, viscous paste is used to fill the groove. However the viscous paste may not be strong enough to hold the FRP sheet.
- Finally, a technique was developed to improve the debonding of the FRP sheet from the concrete surface. This technique called Near Surface Mounted (NSM) uses small metallic or non metallic bolts. Reference is made to Ekenel M et al "Flexural Fatigue Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with FRP Fabric and Precured Laminate Systems" in Journal of Composites of Construction, ASCE, September/October 2006, 433-442, respectively Eshwar et al. "Performance of Two Anchor Systems of Externally Bonded Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Laminates" in ACI Materials Journal, Volume 105, No. 1, January-February 2008, 440.2R. The major disadvantage of that technique is that it cannot be used or it does not have a good behavior when it is used to strengthen joints in order to upgrade their flexural capacity.
- There is thus a need for incorporating an improved anchoring device or system providing safety and trust in the load transfer mechanism which improves the strengthening of existing structures.
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DE 299 24 305 U1 of BILFINGER BERGER AG yet discloses an anchoring system for reinforcing sheets, however said reinforcing sheet is for reinforcing a slab and to anchor said reinforcing sheet to an outer wall.US2005/252142A1 discloses an anchoring device for transmitting tensional forces with the help of a sheet. - The present invention aims at remedying the drawbacks set out above, thereby further improving the resistance of a structure by providing an anchoring device for a surface bonded sheet, in particular a construction system for strengthening an existing structure with tension sheets made of FRP provided in the direction of extension of said existing structure and a respective anchoring device.
- For this purpose, it is proposed according to the present invention a constructive arrangement consisting of a construction structure as defined in
main claim 1, thereby comprising at least one structural member, resp. support element connectively cooperating with each other, further comprising at least one anchoring device, wherein said structural member is supported on said support element by its bottom surface, its adjoining lateral surfaces extending therefrom along a longitudinal axis thereof. Said construction structure is remarkable in that it further comprises sheet means for connectively securing said mutual connectively cooperation between said structural member and said support element, which is delimitated by a bottom, top and a pair of lateral sides. At said top side, it has bonding means for bonding said sheet means at its top side onto said active lateral surface of said structural member so that said sheet is connected with said structural element. Said sheet means is connected at its opposite bottom side to said structural element by actively cooperating therewith, by means of said anchoring device. The latter consists of a holder means extending at least over the whole bottom side of said sheet and of fastening means for anchoring said holder means to said support element, in order to improve its resistance by resisting additional forces. - Said sheet means is thus connectively cooperating with said structural support element in order to transfer the additional forces onto said structural support element. Said additional forces are essentially tensile forces that are all directed in one single direction which is oriented longitudinally defined as the length direction of said sheet, wherein said holder means is located substantially in a tangent plane of the sheet bottom edge.
- There is thus provided thanks to the invention an anchoring device, wherein firstly said sheet is bonded onto the structural member of said constructive arrangement in order to improve its resistance by resisting additional forces, and secondly anchored to a structural support element thereof in order to transfer the additional forces onto said structural support element. The developed forces are transferred from the bonded sheet to the supporting member, such as a foundation, in a safe and easily predictable manner. Remarkably, said shaft means of the anchoring device extends substantially in a plane of the sheet, which allows improving the resistance of the construction structure which thus gets reinforced thanks to the invention. The anchoring device is thus used for strengthening applications, like transferring new forces due to the strengthening scheme.
- Said additional forces being essentially tensile forces all in one single direction being defined as the length of said sheet, said system proposed according to the invention is remarkable in that said anchoring device consists in a shaft extending at least over the whole width of said sheet and a fastening means aimed to lock said shaft to said structural element, and in that the shaft is substantially in the plane of the sheet.
- According to an advantageous embodiment of the construction structure according to the invention, said anchoring device is arranged in an elastically and plastically deformable bonding assembly with said sheets so that said device has an elastic-plastic behaviour. This results in that the stress distribution in said device and in said sheet in the working situation is significantly better than the stress distribution in said device and in said sheet immediately after its installation on said construction structure. Thanks to this embodiment, the stress is distributed over the whole device and sheet, so that the stress differences are smaller, and thus the maximal values of stress are smaller as well.
- The anchoring device included in a construction system according to the invention thus allows combining the two characteristics to secure anchoring of the strengthening scheme and of its elastic-plastic behaviour, thus defining a so-called Hybrid Anchoring Device abridged hereinafter as "H.A.D."
- According to a particular embodiment of the arrangement of the invention, said holder means of the anchoring device consists of a shaft, preferably a cylinder, thus allowing said sheet means to be wrapped around said holder means smoothly and fairly uniformly.
- According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, said sheet is wrapped around said shaft with a solid section or consisting of a tube with a circular outer surface, in particular arranged horizontally, i.e. extending substantially in parallel to said support element, and having its said fastening means provided along the longitudinal axis thereof, for providing a smooth contact with the reinforcing sheet passing around it, in particular wherein said sheet is wrapped around said rod.
- According to a further particular embodiment of the invention, said fastening means consist in lock-down fixation means provided at each end of said holder means, more particularly a vertical anchor bolt or cylinder shaft e.g. of steel, mounted through the centre thereof, which is held securely by said lock-down means which, in turn, is embedded or anchored in the structural support member.
- According to a still further particular embodiment of the invention, said bonding means consist of a bonding strip, in particular extending in parallel to said holder means.
- According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, said sheet means is a reinforcement sheet, in particular made of a fiber reinforced polymer.
- According to a further preferred embodiment of the invention, said fibers are carbon, glass or aramid fibers.
- According to an alternative embodiment of the invention, said fibers are steel fibers.
- According to a further alternative embodiment of the invention, said reinforcing sheet is made of steel.
- According to a still further embodiment of the invention, said sheet is a plate or a shell.
- According to an additional embodiment of the invention, it further comprises a steel plate for pressing the reinforcing sheet on said support element or on said structural member. It may exist a metallic or non metallic plate which pushes the reinforcing sheet onto the structural element's surface.
- Said composite or steel or other metallic or non-metallic material, reinforcing sheet, plate or shell is bonded to the surface of the structural member, and optionally, to the supporting member, and it passes underneath the outer circular surface of the tube or shaft by wrapping it or just bonding it.
- According to a specific embodiment of the construction structure according to the invention, its constructive members may have an overall block shape, with the top one being elongated and extending substantially upright along said longitudinal axis. The bottom one may have a flattened profile, both in a mutually aligned arrangement.
- According to a further specific embodiment of the invention, it is substantially symmetrical, particularly respective a central plane of symmetry extending substantially upright so as to include said longitudinal axis, thereby defining at least two symmetrical parts, each including one said anchoring device actively connecting elastically said constructive members within each said symmetrical part.
- To summarize, thanks to the anchoring device according to the invention, two features are remarkably combined: the secure anchoring of the strengthening scheme and the elastic-plastic behaviour of the anchoring device, wherein this behaviour could be achieved by the yieldingness of the metallic or non-metallic materials which are the horizontal shaft and basically the lock-down means. Due to this behaviour, the stress distribution on the composite or steel or other metallic or non-metallic material, reinforcing sheet, plate or shell is becoming more distributed, which results in a better use of the composite material. Finally, by using the so-called Hybrid Anchoring Device, an elastic strengthening method is becoming inelastic, more ductile.
- In addition to providing a self-centering anchoring device which eliminates the eccentricity problem, the invention thus allows the composite, metallic or non-metallic materials to fully utilize their high strength without premature failure. As a consequence, the present invention allows solving the problem of anchoring externally bonded composite, steel or other materials, metallic or non metallic, to structural support elements in concrete or steel. It enables the developed forces to be transported on said latter materials, composite or steel or other metallic or non metallic materials, to healthy concrete or steel blocks.
- The present invention thus combines the use of a reinforcement sheet with an anchoring device with an inelastic behaviour due to the yielding either of said holder means or of said fastening means.
- Thanks to the invention, there is thus provided an anchoring device allowing an easy installation, without the need to employ new or advanced technology to manufacture or use.
- A further notable advantage of the invention consists in its fairly universal profile enabling the application of the anchoring mechanism to a wide variety of structures, which may be made of quite different materials and shapes, such as reinforced concrete, steel or masonry structures, structural members with a flat surface, such as straight walls and square columns, and structural members with a curved surface, such as curved walls and circular columns.
- According to a useful embodiment of the invention, said structure is an existing structure, and said sheet a reinforcement sheet.
- The present invention also relates to an anchoring method for a surface bonded sheet for improving the resistance of a structure, wherein said sheet is bonded onto the surface of a structural member of said structure in order to improve its resistance by resisting additional forces, and anchored to a structural element of said structure in order to transfer the additional forces onto said structural element, wherein said additional forces are essentially tensile forces all in one single direction being defined as the length of said sheet. Said method is remarkable in that a shaft extending at least over the whole width of said sheet is locked to said structural element by a fastening means, and in that the shaft is substantially in the plane of the sheet.
- According to a preferred embodiment of the method according to the invention, the rod, the fastening means and the sheet once assembled are elastically and plastically deformed in such a way that the stress distribution in said rod, fastening means and sheet in the working situation is significantly better than the stress distribution in said rod, fastening means and sheet immediately after its installation on said structure.
- In this respect, and according to a yet preferred embodiment of the method of the invention, said stress distribution is first measured in said working situation of said device and afterwards immediately after its installation on said structure, both being compared.
- Further features and properties of the device and the anchoring method will emerge from the following description in detail of some embodiments of the invention, which are illustrated with the aid of the attached drawings.
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Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a construction system with an anchoring device of the invention with a sheet bonded to a vertical structural member thereof. -
Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view of an embodiment as shown in the latterFig. 2 in a connective relationship, taken along a vertical longitudinal plane thereof. -
Fig. 4 is a similar side view of said embodiment of the invention as in both previous figures showing sections of the sheet. -
Fig. 5 is a further enlarged perspective view of the embodiment as shown inFig. 2 , under a different observation angle. -
Fig. 6 is an experimental setup of the overall arrangement according to the invention as shown inFig. 1 . -
Fig. 7 shows results as displayed on an experimental graph with 100% capacity increase thereof. -
Fig. 8 and 9 show the Hybrid Anchoring Device (H.A.D.) according to the invention with a different orientation. -
Fig. 10 shows another application of said Hybrid Anchoring Device according to the invention for shear strengthening of structural members. - The present invention generally relates to a construction system comprising an anchoring device for strengthening structures, wherein conventional structural reinforcing materials are used. The surface reinforcing agent is e.g. a
surface reinforcing sheet 3. It could be a plate or a shell as well. Its composition may be of non-metal or metal. The structural reinforcing material is preferably made of composite materials known as FRP. -
Fig. 1 shows a preferred embodiment of said construction system incorporating saidanchoring device 4 wherein the developed load is transferred from theFRP sheet 3 to a supporting member orfoundation 6, through theanchoring device 4. The main advantage thereof is that saidanchoring device 4 offers a confident prediction and a safe transfer of the forces. - Said
sheet 3 is bonded to the surface of the strengtheningstructural member 5 shown vertical inFig. 1 e.g. by epoxy or any other conventional bonding materials. Theanchoring device 4 is thus attached to the supportingmember 6. -
Fig. 2 shows an enlarged detailed view of saidanchoring device 4 for providing structural reinforcement with saidcomposite FRP sheet 3. Saidsheet 3 is wrapped around the outer surface of a horizontal holder means 1 consisting of a shaft, preferably circular, thus transferring the load carried by saidsheet 3 to theanchoring device 4 and further through its fastening means 2. The latter consist of bolts engaged vertically in correspondingholes 8, e.g. metallic bolts. Said load is thus transferred to the supportingmember 6 or foundation. Said holder means 1 may also consist of a tube, e.g. cylindrical. - Typically, the
structural member 5 is a concrete or steel structural element, while the supportingmember 6 is a foundation, also composed of concrete or steel. Upon applying tensile load to thesheet 3, the resultant action of the applied FRP load and the interface shear force provided by theepoxy bond 7 of thesheet 3 to thestructural member 5 and supportingmember 6 is parallel to saidhorizontal holder 1, resulting in a complete utilization of the sheet's mechanical properties. - In other words, the
sheet 3 is transferring the forces to the horizontalcircular holder 1, which in turn is transferring those forces to said fastening means 2 of theanchoring device 4. Said fastening means 2 may also consist of a pair ofrods 2 arranged vertically through theshaft 3 and acting asvertical anchors 2 for saiddevice 4, which may be made of non metal as well. Finally, thosevertical anchors 2 are transferring those forces to the supporting structural element orfoundation 6 as shown inFig. 1 . - As a consequence, there is a tendency of pull out of the vertical bolts or
rod 2 acting as anchors. This tendency is avoided by the safe and proper embedment of saidanchors 2 in the concrete orsteel blocks 6 as shown inFig. 3 . The appropriate depth, resp. diameter of the receivingholes 8 opened in the top face of the supporting structural element orfoundation 6 for anchoring said fastening means 2, is determined by the analysis and the design of the strengthening scheme. Thevertical anchors 2 can be either steel or other metallic bolts, or even regular structural reinforcing bars. The anchoring can be established with the use of an epoxy material which is placed between thevertical anchors 2 and thefoundation 6. Alternatively, it may also be achieved with mechanical means like welding or screwing and the like. - Also referring to
Fig. 4 , the developed forces may thus be considered as acting parallel to saidcomposite sheet 3 as well as to theHybrid Anchoring Device 4 abridged as HAD, which results in a both safe and easy prediction. Also this arrangement of the forces results in the safe and easy fabrication of the strengthening scheme. - The
anchoring device 4 is illustrated with the following strengthening example of a verticalstructural member 5. - The design load of the
anchoring device 4 is the load that theCFRP sheet 3 applies thereto 4 in a verticalstructural element 5 loaded at the top by a lateral force. The dimensions of theanchoring device 4 are selected so that the maximum stress therein 4 under the design load does not exceed the yield stress of thematerial thereof 4. - The
anchoring device 4 also shown under a different observation angle inFig. 5 is designed by using Mechanics of Material simple laws. As a result, a 40 mm diameter steel horizontalsolid shaft 1 is chosen with 18 mm diametervertical steel bolts 2. The thickness of theCFRP sheet 3 is equal to 0,34 mm. The design of the strengthening scheme is done in a way that the CFRP will fail. In this way, the maximum capacity of the CFRP will be utilized. The diameter of the steelhorizontal shaft 1 may vary between 10 mm and 200 mm according to overall capacity that is demanded by the design of the strengthening scheme. This diameter range may be bigger or smaller in accordance with the needs as well as for thevertical steel bolts 2 and theCFRP 3. - The properties of the vertical concrete
structural element 5 are not mentioned. It is the mean of testing the behaviour of theanchoring device 4. -
Fig. 6 shows an example of the experimental setup thereof. It consists in abaseplate 6 about 1 m in square and 300 mm thick on which astructural member 5 is fixed, about 1400 mm long, and with a 500 mm square section.Hydraulic pistons 11 are installed on top and on a side face near the top of saidstructural member 5, in order to allow applying vertical resp. horizontal forces on it.Load cells 12 are installed near the application point of saidpistons 11 in order to measure the applied forces. Displacement sensors 13 (LVDT) measure the horizontal displacement of the upper end of thestructural member 5, and the vertical uplift of the reinforcement sheet and/or the said member. -
Fig. 7 shows the use of the present invention as a means of a strengthening system results to an increase of the structural's member capacity equal to 100%. More specifically, the Virgin Pier, which is the Pier without theHybrid Anchoring Device 4 resulted to a maximum horizontal load equal to 37 kN, whereas the 24 mm-Pier resulted to a maximum horizontal load equal to 75 kN. The 24 mm-Pier corresponds to a Pier which was imposed to a maximum horizontal displacement equal to 24 mm with HAD 4 attached on it. The use of thepresent anchoring device 4 resulted in an increase of the ultimate horizontal displacement as well. It was increased from 15 mm to 29 mm, due to the plasticity of the device. Thepresent anchoring device 4 is qualified as "Hybrid" due to the fact that it combines the secure anchoring of the strengthening scheme, offering at the same time to a structure an increase of the ductility due to its plasticisation. -
Fig. 8 and 9 show said Hybrid Anchoring Device with a different orientation, not claimed by the application. The reinforcingsheet 3 is wrapped around the anchoringholder 1 but at this case the fastening means 2 are carrying theanchoring holder 1 through thesteel plate 9. - Finally,
Fig. 10 indicates another application of said Hybrid Anchoring Device not claimed by the application, for shear strengthening of structural members. The reinforcingsheet 3 is attached on the concrete surface of thestructural member 5. The reinforcing sheet is also wrapped around the anchoringholder 1. The fastening means 2 are being placed vertically to the reinforcingsheet 3 and asteel plate 9 is finally placed for applying vertical pressure on thesheet 3 and holding at the same time theanchoring holder 1. - It is to be understood that the description above is given only by way of example to illustrate the present invention.
- Indeed, the application of the anchoring device of the present invention is not limited to anchoring application of bonded FRP sheet. The structural and/or supporting surfaces can be reinforced with bonded or unbonded reinforcing plate or shell made of FRP or steel or other metallic or non-metallic materials.
- Said anchoring device is not limited to retrofitting or repairing of existing structures, such as seismic upgrade of structural and supporting walls. Any new building structures may incorporate the present invention, so as to provide for improved structural reinforcements.
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- A construction structure comprising at least one structural member (5) and a support element (6), both connectively cooperating with each other, said construction structure further comprising at least one anchoring device (4), wherein said structural member (5) is supported on said support element (6) with its bottom surface (A), its adjoining lateral surfaces extending therefrom (B, C) along a longitudinal axis (ℓ) thereof (A), said construction structure further comprising:- reinforcement surface means (3) for connectively securing said mutual cooperation between said structural member (5) and said support element (6), said reinforcement surface means (3) being delimitated by a bottom (b) and opposite top sides (a) respectively and having at said top side (a):fastening means (2) for anchoring said holder means (1) to said support element (6), wherein said reinforcement surface means (3) is actively cooperating at its opposite bottom side (b) with said support element (6), by means of said anchoring device (4), wherein at least tensile forces transferred to the support element (6) are transmitted through the anchoring device (4) to the structural element (5), said reinforcement surface means (3) being a sheet (3) wrapped around the holder means (1) at its said bottom side (b) with two parts surrounding the holder means (1), characterized in that one part of these two parts being reversed in substantially the same direction as the other part.- bonding means (7) for bonding said reinforcement surface means (3) at its top side (a) onto said active lateral surface (B, C) of said structural member (5), wherein said anchoring device (4) consists of:- a holder means (1) extending continuously and at least over the whole bottom side (b) of said reinforcement surface means (3) for holding same in a remote connective relationship with said support element (6), said holder means (1) being a shaft comprising
- A construction structure according to the preceding claim, characterized in that said anchoring device (4) is arranged in an elastically and plastically deformable bonding assembly with said reinforcement surface means (3).
- A construction structure according to one of both preceding claims, characterized in that the shaft (1) is a cylinder, preferably with a circular section, said reinforced surface means (3) being made of a fibre reinforced polymer FRP, more particularly a composite FRP material, more particularly wherein said fibres are carbon, glass or aramid fibres.
- A construction structure according to one of the claims 1 to 3, characterized in that said reinforcement surface means (3) is made of metal, in particular steel.
- A construction structure according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that said bonding means consist of a bonding strip (7), more particularly extending in parallel to said holder means (1).
- A construction structure according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said structural members (5) has an elongated shape extending substantially upright along said longitudinal axis (ℓ), in a mutually aligned arrangement with said support element (6).
- A construction structure according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said construction structure (10) is substantially symmetrical, particularly respective a central plane of symmetry (a) extending substantially upright so as to include said longitudinal axis (ℓ), thereby defining two symmetrical parts (18, resp. 19), each one including one said anchoring device (4) connecting elastically said constructive members (5, 6) within each said symmetrical part (18, 19).
- A construction structure according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said anchoring device (4) is for a reinforced surface means (3) improving the resistance of said structure (5, 6), wherein said reinforced surface means (3) is anchored to said structural element (6) of said structure (10) for transferring the additional forces onto said structural element, said additional forces being essentially tensile forces all in one single direction being defined as the length of said reinforced surface means (3), and in that said anchoring device (4) consists of said shaft (1) extending at least over the whole width of said reinforced surface means (3) and of said fastening means (2) aimed to lock said shaft to said structural element (6), and in that said shaft (1) is substantially in the plane of the reinforced surface means (3).
- A construction structure according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that said fastening means (2) consist in fixation means provided at each end of said shaft (1), in particular wherein said fixation means are bolts or steel cylinder rods.
- A construction structure according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it further comprises a steel plate (9) for pressing the reinforced surface means (3) on the said support element (6) or said structural member (5), particularly wherein said plate (9) is a prismatic shape part which applies pressure on the reinforcing sheet (3) for pushing the reinforced surface means (3) onto the structural element's surface (6).
- An anchoring method for a reinforcement surface means, notably a surface bonded reinforced surface means (3) provided for improving the resistance of a construction structure, comprising at least one structural member (5) and a support element (6), said construction structure being according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that said reinforced surface means (3) is bonded onto the surface of a structural member (5) of said structure in order to improve its resistance by resisting against tensile forces, and anchored to a structural element (6) of said structure in order to transfer the tensile forces onto said structural element (5), said tensile forces being essentially all in one single direction being defined as the length of said reinforced surface means (3), wherein said holder means (1) extending at least over the whole width of said sheet (3) is locked to said structural element (6) by a fastening means (2), and in that said holder means (1) is substantially in the plane of the reinforced surface means (3), wherein said tensile forces are transmitted to the structural element (6) and the structural member (5) through the anchoring device 4.
- An anchoring method according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the shaft (1), the fastening means (2) and the reinforced surface means (3) are assembled as a device (4) after which they are elastically and plastically deformed so as to improve the stress distribution in said device (4) consisting of said shaft (1) and fastening means (2) and reinforced surface means (3).
- An anchoring method according to one of both preceding claims 11 or 12 when depending on one of the claims 3 to 10, characterized in that the transfer of said forces from said reinforced surface means particularly FRP strips (3) to the concrete volume is a two-step process, wherein- in the first step, the sheet, resp. FRP forces are first transferred to the anchoring device (4) and- in the subsequent second step, the forces are transferred from the anchoring device (4) to the concrete volume in a specific way wherein said sheets particularly the FRP strips (3) are wrapped around the anchoring device (4).
- An anchoring method according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the anchoring device (4) still functions beyond, even if the debonding of the FRP strip (3) from the concrete volume occurs, in which case the anchoring device (4) takes over the force transfer function by withstanding considerably higher force levels than those mobilized by the bond mechanism and suitably transfer these force levels to the concrete volume by itself, wherein the limit states for the anchoring device (4) are defined by the following:- various ductile modes of limit-state for the anchoring device itself (4) that can occur by the yielding and eventually the fracture of its various steel parts;- the fracture of the FRP strip (3), which, if it finally occurs, means that one has capitalized on all the FRP material strength.
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