Orthotropic steel bridge deck system usually consists of an orthotropic steel deck and an asphalt overlay. Fatigue cracks of the orthotropic steel deck and premature damage of the asphalt overlay are frequently reported for such system. Engineering cementitious composites (ECC) was therefore proposed to replace the asphalt overlay to address the aforementioned issues. The current study presents an investigation on the transversal flexural behaviour of the ECC under bending forces. Influence of the bending force direction, cover thickness, the number of longitudinal reinforcement steel bars on the flexural performance was revealed. Responses with regard to the load-deflection curve, failure mode, the ultimate capacity, the cracking behaviour, the interfacial slip between ECC and steel deck and the nominal cracking stresses were analysed. The results showed that the load-deflection response under both negative and positive bending forces exhibits elastic stage, crack-developing stage and yield stage. Compared with the reinforcement ratio, cover thickness plays a more significant role on the flexural performances. When the cover thickness decreases from 35 mm to 25 mm, the peak load increases by 21%–25%. ECC maintains its feature of being ductile, with high tensile and compressive strain capacity in the composite slab. From the design point of view, reducing the cover thickness and increasing the reinforcement ratio can improve the ultimate load and cracking stress, and reduce the internal slip, strain and crack width of the composite slab. It is expected that the current study can provide basic knowledge to the design and application of the steel-ECC composite deck system.


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    Title :

    Transverse Flexural Behaviour of Steel-Engineering Cementitious Composites (ECC) Composite Deck under Negative and Positive Bending Forces


    Additional title:

    KSCE J Civ Eng


    Contributors:
    Guan, Yanhua (author) / Wu, Jiajie (author) / Sun, Renjuan (author) / Zhang, Hongzhi (author) / Hu, Yanqiu (author) / Wang, Fei (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2021-08-01


    Size :

    12 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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