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A growing body of research has shown that reversed cyclic shear loading of reinforced concrete (RC) causes effects that are not accounted for in monotonic behavioral models. Notable among these effects are a reduction in shear strength and significant plastic offsets. This paper presents the General Crack Component Model, a rational, mechanics-based model that explicitly considers the constitutive behavior of cracks in RC. Cracked RC is treated as a series–parallel system of bonded and unbonded regions, where the crack interfaces have both crack closing hysteresis and a kinematic contact constraint. Validation was performed using data from monotonic and reversed cyclic experiments on panel elements, and has shown that this analytical model is able to accurately capture the salient features of reversed cyclic shear behavior.
Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac
Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann