IJIRST –International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology| Volume 3 | Issue 04 | September 2016 ISSN (online): 2349-6010
Effect of Fire on RC Slab Poorna S M. Tech. Student Department of Civil Engineering FISAT, Kerala, India-683577
Reshma Prasad Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering FISAT, Kerala, India-683577
Abstract Concrete is a construction material used for buildings, bridge decks and also used for other special purposes. Concrete has now become a very common construction material. The main advantage of this building material is that it can be designed as per the requirements. In the modern industry, grade of concrete used varies from M20 to M70. Even higher grades are designed if needed. When the concrete is used in special purposes the chance of fire exposure also increases. In case of unexpected fire, the properties of concrete changes and hence it is important to know the deflection rate of the concrete structures and the various effects of fire on concrete. Numerous studies were conducted on concrete both experimental and analytically to understand its behaviour under fire. In this study the thermal behavior of reinforced concrete slab exposed to fire is studied and presented. The paper mainly focuses on the percentage deflection of RC slab when exposed to elevated temperature. The RCC slabs were modeled using ANSYS14.5, to show the behavior of slab at elevated temperature with M25, M70 and M100 grade of concrete and with cover of 30mm,40mm and 50mm. Analysis was also carried out to study the load-deflection pattern and percentage of deflection with and without heat with a pressure of 0.1N/mm2. In stage one, 9 specimens were modeled to show the effect of different grade of concrete with different cover. The heat is applied on the basis of ISO 834 curve. The result showed that the deflection of a slab decreases as the cover provided increases. It was also found that the deflection of the slab decreases as the grade of concrete increases. From the result incurred it is seen that the analysis showed minimum deflection for M100 with cover 50mm. Hence it can be observed that, it is very essential to consider the effect of fire while designing special structures such as blast furnaces etc. Keywords: Fire on RC Slab, Modal Analysis, ISO 834 Curve, Thermal Behaviour _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I.
INTRODUCTION
Reinforced Concrete (RC) has been the most popular construction material used worldwide in the past century. It has proven to be a wonderful construction material that possesses almost all of the desirable properties such as excellent insulation from environment, durability, low cost, ease of construction, ability to mould in any given shape to name a few. Even from structural aspects, reinforced concrete construction serves its intended purpose extremely well, if properly designed and constructed. The most substantial consequence of fire on a concrete slab is the stiffness and strength degradation which may lead to collapse. It is important to study how the concrete property changes according to temperature. The compressive strength of the concrete decreases when temperature increases but the ultimate strain of the concrete increases with temperature. The tensile strength of the concrete also decreases with an increase in temperature. A tensile stress can also be obtained up to a temperature of 5000C.The modulus of elasticity of the concrete decreases with an increase in temperature. The reduction of the modulus of elasticity is due to the weak bonds formed in the microstructure of the cement paste when the temperature increases and is the result of the onset of rapid short-term creep. II. LITERATURE REVIEW Significant researches was carried out on effect of fire on RC slab Faris ali et al (2008) performed an experimental investigation on explosive spalling and deformation of 6 full-scale simply supported reinforced concrete slabs subjected to conventional fire curve (BS476) and severe hydrocarbon fire curve. Each slab was loaded with 65% of its BS8110 design load and was heated from the bottom side only. Temperature profile was recorded at 3 depths within the slabs and the moisture content was also measured before and after the tests. The deflection of the slabs was recorded at the middle of the 3 meters span. The second part he represents a Finite Element Modeling of the slabs using DIANA software. The concrete slabs were modeled including the embedded reinforcement to conduct a non-linear transient structural analysis taking into account cracks appearance and creep. A comparison between the experimental and the FEM was analyzed. A discussion of the current state of our ability to predict the effects of fire on building structures has been presented. The emphasis has been on the degree to which fire dynamics, heat transfer, and structural analysis can be coupled.
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