Shear wall systems behave as individual wall because of openings like window and elevator cage. When coupling beams are installed in shear walls, they will have high strength and stiffness so that be less damaged by lateral loads like earthquake. However, coupling beam is difficult construction method. And arranging reinforcement of slender coupling beams are especially hard. It is because the details of coupling beam provided by ACI 318 are complex. In this paper, experiments were conducted using coupling beams with 3.5 aspect ratio to improve the details of slender coupling beams provided by ACI 318. Two specimens were proposed for this study. One specimen applied with bundled diagonally reinforcement only. Another specimen applied both bundled diagonally reinforcement and High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite (HPFRCC) so that coupling beams have half of transverse reinforcement. All specimen were compared with a coupling beam designed according to ACI 318 and were evaluated with hysteretic behaviors. Test results showed that the performance of two specimen suggested in this study were similar to that of coupling beam designed according to current criteria. And it was considered that simplification of the details of reinforcement would be available if transverse reinforcement was reduced by using bundled diagonally reinforcement and HPFRCC.

The hysteretic behavior of diagonal reinforced coupling beams is excellent during earthquakes. However, construction of the diagonal reinforced coupling beams is difficult due to complex reinforcement details required by current code procedures (ACI 318-11). Due to the detail requirement, reinforcement congestion and interference among transverse reinforcement always occur during construction field. When the aspect ratio of the beam is large, the interference of reinforcement becomes more serious. The objective of this paper is to simplify the reinforcement details of slender coupling beams by reducing transverse reinforcement around the beam perimeter. For this purpose, high- performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites are used for making coupling beams. Experiments were conducted using three specimens having aspect ratio 3.5. Test results showed that HPFRCC coupling beams with half the transverse reinforcement required by ACI 318-11 provided identical seismic capacities to the corresponding coupling beams having requirement satisfying the requirement specified in ACI 318-11.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dynamic mechanical properties of fiber reinforced cement composite according to the strain rate. Experiment result, the compressive strength was improved by increase the strain rate. But strain at the peak stress and elastic modulus was not affected by the strain rate.

본 연구는 SIFCON 형태의 고성능 강섬유보강 시멘트 복합체의 섬유혼입률에 따른 휨실험을 수행하였고, 실험결과를 바탕으로 휨성능을 평가하였다. 슬러리를 충전하는 형태로 일반 섬유보강시멘트와 달리 높은 섬유혼입률을 확보할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 주요 실험변수는 섬유혼입률 8.0%, 7.5%, 7.0%, 6.5% 및 6.0% 이며, 각 변수에 대한 휨강도 및 휨인성 특성을 분석하였다. 그 결과, 높은 섬유혼입률로 인하여 초기균열 발생 이후에도 계속적으로 하중이 증가하였으며, 최대강도 이후 충분한 잔류강도를 확보하였다. 또한 최대 50MPa 수준의 높은 휨강도를 발현하였으며, 섬유혼입률에 따른 휨강도 및 휨인성은 비례하여 증가하는 경향으로 나타났다.

본 연구에서는 초고성능 시멘트 복합체(Ultra High Performance Cementitious Composites, UHPCC)의 압축강도에 미치는 강섬유 보강효과에 관한 연구를 수행하였으며, 일반 강섬유보강 콘크리트에서의 경향과 비교․검토를 실시하였다. 다양한 크기의 압축강도에 대해 UHPCC에서의 섬유보강효과에 관한 실험을 수행한 결과, 일반 섬유보강 콘크리트에서처럼 섬유보강에 따른 압축강도의 향상을 확인할 수 있었다. 실험결과는 압축강도 100MPa 이하를 대상으로 하는 일반 강섬유보강 콘크리트에 관한 기존 연구결과들과 비교분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 모든 범위의 압축강도에 대해 압축강도에 관계없이 와 이 일정한 선형관계를 가지는 것을 규명하였으며, UHPCC를 포함하는 광범위한 압축강도의 강섬유보강 콘크리트에 대해 적용이 가능한 포괄적 섬유보강효과의 관계식을 도출하였다.