A study of r.c.c. beam column connection subjected to monotonic loading

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A STUDY OF R.C.C. BEAM-COLUMN CONNECTION SUBJECTED TO
MONOTONIC LOADING
S. S. Patil1
, S. S. Manekari2
1, 2
Department of Civil Engineering, Walchand Institute of Technology Seth Walchand Hirachand Marg, Ashok Chowk,
Solapur-413006 ( M.S.) India
sspatil1962@gmail.com, manekariss@rediffmail.com
Abstract
Beam and column where intersects is called as joint or Connection. The different types of joints are classified as corner joint, exterior
joint, interior joint etc. on beam column joint applying quasi-static loading .i. e. monotonic loading on cantilever end of the beam and
study of various parameters as to be find out on corner and exterior beam column joint i.e. maximum stress, minimum stress,
displacement and variation in stiffness of beam column joint can be analyzed in Ansys software ( Non-Linear FEM Software) The
various research studies focused on corner and exterior beam column joints and their behavior, support conditions of beam-column
joints. Some recent experimental studies, however, addressed beam-column joints of substandard RC frames with weak columns, poor
anchorage of longitudinal beam bars and insufficient transverse reinforcement. the behavior of exterior beam column joint is different
than the corner beam column joint.
Keywords: beam, column, corner, exterior, joint, monotonic load, quasi-static, varying stiffness.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Earthquakes are one of the most feared natural phenomena
that are relatively unexpected and whose impact is sudden due
to the almost instantaneous destruction that a major
earthquake can produce. Severity of ground shaking at a given
location during an earthquake can be minor, moderate and
strong which relatively speaking occur frequently,
occasionally an rarely respectively. Design and construction of
a building to resist the rare earthquake shaking that may come
only once in 500 years or even once in 2000 years at a chosen
project site even though life of the building itself may be only
50 to 100 years is too robust and also too expensive. Hence,
the main intention is to make building earthquake-resistant
that resist the effect of ground shaking although it may get
damaged severely but would not collapse during even the
strong earthquake. Thus, the safety of people and contents is
assured in earthquake-resistant buildings. This is a major
objective of seismic design codes throughout the world.
A Beam-Column Joints is defined as the portion of a column
within the depth of the beams that frame into it. Formerly, the
design of monolithic joints was limited to providing adequate
encourage for the reinforcement. However the increasing use
of high strength concrete, resulting in smaller member cross
section, and the use large diameter of reinforcing bars now
required that more attention be given to joint design and
detailing.
1.1 Exterior Joint Mechanism
When the joint is applied with different loads the mechanism
of force transfer takes place. This mechanism is shown in
fig.1.
Fig1. Joint loads acting on the free body of a typical joint of a
frame Subjected to gravity loads.(Exterior Seismic Beam
Column Joint)
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Vladmir Guilherne Haach, Ana Lucia Home De Cresce El
Debs, Mounir Khalil El Debs
This paper investigates the inﬂuence of the column axial load
on the joint shear strength through numerical simulations. The
numerical study is performed through the software ABAQUS,

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based on Finite Element Method. A comparison of the
numerical and experimental results is presented in order to
validate the simulation. The results showed that the column
axial load made the joint more stiff but also introduced
stresses in the beam longitudinal reinforcement. A more
uniform stress distribution in the joint region is obtained when
the stirrup ratio is increased. Furthermore, some tension from
the top beam longitudinal reinforcement is absorbed by the
stirrups located at the upper part of the joint. This paper gives
the affect of stirrup ratio to exterior beam-column joints where
the beam is loaded monotonically. It was concluded that
stirrups located in the upper region of the joint absorb part of
the tension stress proceeding from beam longitudinal
reinforcement and improve their anchorage.
Hegger Josef,Sherif Alaa and Roeser Wolfgang This paper
investigate the behavior of exterior and interior beam-column
joints by Nonlinear finite element analysis using ATENA a
software for nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete
structures. The model has been calibrated using the results of
the third author’s tests. The behavior of exterior and interior
beam-column turned out to be different .The parameters
influencing the shear strength are not the same for both types
of connections. Different parameters like effect of the material
properties, effect of geometry of connection, effect of
reinforcement, effect of concrete compressive strength and
joint slenderness. The parameters influencing the shear
capacity are different for exterior and interior connections.
The FE results were compared with the author’s experimental
results and the good agreement between the two was achieved.
3. FRAMED JOINTS
Beam column joints can be critical regions in reinforced
concrete frames designed for inelastic response to severe
seismic attack. As a consequence of seismic moments in
columns of opposite signs immediately above and below the
joint, the joint region is subjected to horizontal and vertical
shear forces whose magnitude is typically many times higher
than in the adjacent beams and columns.
Features of joint behavior: Under seismic action large shear
forces may be introduced into beam–column joints
irrespective of whether plastic hinges develop at column faces
or at some other section of beams. These shear forces may
cause a failure in the joint core due to the breakdown of shear
or bond mechanisms or both.
Equilibrium criteria: As a joint is also a part of a column,
examination of its function as a column component is
instructive. An interior column extending between points of
contra flexure, at half storey heights may be isolated as free
body, as shown in fig. Actions introduced by symmetrically
reinforced beams to the column are shown in fig. to be internal
horizontal tension Tb and compression Cb forces and vertical
beam shear Vb forces.
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
Fig.2. Features of column and joint behavior
Making approximation that Cb = Tb and the beam shear on
both sides of the joint are equal, equilibrium of the free body
shown requires a horizontal column shear force of
The intensity of the horizontal shear within the joint Vjh is
typically four to six times larger than that across the column
between adjacent joints Vc.
c
cbbb
c
l
hVZT
V
+
=
2

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Fig3 Typical Beam Column Connections
4. LOADING SYSTEMS
4.1 Types of Loading systems
The behavior of building is studied with different types of
loads.
1) Static loading
Static means slow loading in structural testing.
-Test of components
-Beams (bending), column (axial), beams and columns
Purpose of testing
-Determine strength limits
-Determine the flexibility/rigidity of structures
2) Quasi-static loading
Very slowly applied loading in one direction (monotonic)
3) Quasi-static reversed cyclic loading
Very slowly applied loading in both direction (cyclic)
4) Dynamic (random) loading
-Shake at the base or any other elevation of the structure
-Shaking similar to that during earthquakes.
5. FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
The Finite Element Analysis is a numerical technique in which
all complexities of the problems varying shape, boundary
conditions and loads are maintained as they are but the
solutions obtained are approximate. Solutions can be obtained
for all problems by Finite Element Analysis.
Various steps involved in FEM are as follows.
1. Selection of field variables and the elements.
2. Discretization of structure.
3. Finding the element properties
4. Assembling element stiffness matrix
5. Solution of nodal unknowns
6. ELEMENT TYPE USED
Reinforced Concrete: An eight-node solid element, Solid65,
was used to model the concrete. The solid element has eight
nodes with three degrees of freedom at each node –
translations in the nodal x, y, and z directions. The element is
capable of plastic deformation, cracking in three orthogonal
directions, and crushing. The geometry and node locations for
this element type are shown in below.
Fig4. Solid65 – 3-D reinforced concrete solid (ANSYS 1998)
A Link8 element is used to model the steel reinforcement.
Two nodes are required for this element. Each node has three
degrees of freedom, – translations in the nodal x, y, and z
directions. The element is also capable of plastic deformation.
7. MATERIAL PROPERTIES
Concrete Development of a model for the behavior of
concrete is a challenging task. Concrete is a quasi-brittle
material and has different behavior in compression and
tension. The tensile strength of concrete is typically 8-15% of
the compressive strength (Shah, et al. 1995). Figure below
shows a typical stress-strain curve for normal weight concrete
(Bangash 1989).In compression, the stress-strain curve for
concrete is linearly elastic up to about 30 percent of the
maximum compressive strength. Above this point, the stress
increases gradually up to the maximum compressive strength.
After it reaches the maximum compressive strength σcu
, the
curve descends into a softening region, and eventually
crushing failure occurs at an ultimate strain εcu
. In tension, the
stress-strain curve for concrete is approximately linearly
elastic up to the maximum tensile strength. After this point,
the concrete cracks and the strength decreases gradually to
zero (Bangash 1989).
7.1 Steel Reinforced Concrete [Smeared Model]
Material Properties
In this project the structure has been modeled using Steel
Reinforced Concrete. The material properties mentioned
below act equivalent for a Smeared Reinforcement concrete
model using solid 65 element in Ansys. Many research papers
have been published using similar kind of model. Broujerdian
et. al (2010) have worked using a similar approach. The used
of this features enables obtaining good results with less solver
and modeling time.
8. PROBLEM STATEMENT
8.1 Problem Definition
A ground plus five Storey RC office building is considered.
Plan dimensions :12 m x 12 m

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Location considered : Zone-III
Soil Type considered :Rock Soil
8.2 General Data of Building:
• Grade of concrete : M 20
• Grade of steel considered : Fe 250, Fe 415
• Live load on roof : 2 KN/m2
(Nil
for earthquake)
• Live load on floors : 4 KN/m2
(50
% for earthquake)
• Roof finish : 1.0 KN/m2
• Floor finish : 1.0 KN/m2
• Brick wall in longitudinal direction (BL) : 250
mm thick
• Brick wall in transverse direction (BT) : 150 mm thick
• Beam in longitudinal direction : 230X300 mm
• Beam in transverse direction : 230X300 mm
• Column size : 300X600 mm
• Density of concrete : 25 KN/m3
• Density of brick wall including plaster : 20 KN/m3
• Plinth beam(PB1) : 350X250 mm
• Plinth beam(PB2) : 250X300 mm
8.3 Parametric Study
The exterior and corner beam-column joints are studied with
different parameters like i.e. Maximum principle stress,
Minimum principle stress, Displacement, Deformation also
studied end conditions of beam column joint i.e. fixed end
conditions, Hinge end conditions and Stiffness variation of
beam column joint i.e. Corner and Exterior joints.
9. FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING AND
ANALYSISOF BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS
The exterior and corner beam-column joint is considered to
study joint behavior subjected to monotonic loading.
Preparation of FE model is carried out based on results
obtained from space frame analysis of a building located in
zone-III. Model construction is done by defining geometrical
joints and lines. Material definition is carried out prior to
assigning of macro elements. The joint is fully restrained at
the column ends. The load is applied at the tip of the beam in
one direction.
Fig5. Modeling of corner beam column joints in the Ansys
Fig.6..Modeling of Exterior beam column joints in the Ansys

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9. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
9.1 Variation in stiffness of Corner beam column
joint (For Displacement)
Table 1
Fig.7 LOAD VS MAXIMUM DEFORMATION
9.2 Variation in stiffness of corner beam column joint
(Minimum Stress)
Table 2
Fig.8.LOAD VS MINIMUM STRESS
9.3 Variation in stiffness of corner beam column joint
(Maximum Stress)
Table 3
Fig.9. LOAD VS MAXIMUM STRESS GRAPH
Load
in
KN
Displa
cement
in mm
Displaceme
nt in mm
Displace
ment in
mm
Displacement
in mm
Sj=0.1
8
Sj=1.29 Sj=2.05 Sj=0.75
5 0.4172 0.34116 0.274849 0.5875
10 0.8344 0.68233 0.549698 1.175
15 1.6689 1.36467 1.099396 1.3512
20 3.3478 2.7293 1.319256 1.6215
25 3.6889 3.4095 1.649056 2.0268
30 3.983 4.4295 2.141056 2.6346
Load
in KN
Mini. Stress
in N/mm2
Mini.
Stress in
N/mm2
Mini.
Stress
In N/mm2
Mini.
Stress
In N/mm2
Sj=0.18 Sj=1.29 Sj=2.05 Sj=0.75
5 -0.931495 -0.889535 -0.922823 -0.035402
10 -3.92411 -1.21114 -1.33809 -0.88506
15 -4.00092 -2.12256 -1.53242 -1.77012
20 -6.00393 -2.13257 -1.56506 -2.27215
25 -6.94422 -2.33399 -1.66497 -2.30116
30 -7.60862 -2.34361 -1.8868 -3.2847
Load
in KN
Maxi.
Stress
in N/mm2
Maxi.
Stress
in N/mm2
Maxi.
Stress
in
N/mm2
Maxi.
Stress in
N/mm2
Sj=0.18 Sj=1.29 Sj=2.05 Sj=0.75
5 0.303477 0.3956 0.389974 0.008042
10 2.20581 1.66923 0.585308 0.201056
15 2.22582 1.67924 1.15246 0.402113
20 3.77446 1.96634 1.20463 1.21377
25 4.6321 2.93769 1.29138 1.23761
30 6.17119 6.50058 2.3821 4.01801

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9.4 Variation in stiffness of Exterior beam column
joint (For Displacement)
Table 4
Fig.10. LOAD VS MAXIMUM DEFORMATION
joint (Minimum Stress)
Table 5
Fig.11. LOAD VS MINIMUM STRESS GRAPH
joint (Maximum Stress)
Table6
Fig12. LOAD VS MAXIMUM STRESS GRAPH
Loa
d in
KN
Displaceme
nt in mm
Displaceme
nt in mm
Displacem
ent in mm
Displace
ment in
mm
Sj=1.29 Sj=2.05 Sj=0.75 Sj=0.18
5 0.604115 0.60052 0.213883 0.507809
10 1.20823 1.20104 0.427767 1.0156
15 2.41646 1.38119 0.641712 1.16794
20 2.8996 1.6571 1.81128 1.40134
25 3.6244 2.0714 2.12017 1.75134
30 3.9248 2.6927 2.60442 2.27664
Load
in
KN
Mini.
Stress in
N/mm2
Mini.
Stress in
N/mm2
Mini.
Stress in
N/mm2
Mini.
Stress in
N/mm2
Sj=1.29 Sj=2.05 Sj=0.75 Sj=0.18
5 -0.858169 -2.09364 -0.429264 -0.88953
10 -1.71634 -3.06832 -0.858527 -2.25308
15 -2.33399 -4.05034 -1.397001 -2.68991
20 -2.60959 -4.899265 -1.57095 -2.88285
25 -2.97925 -5.79853 -2.13031 -3.91109
30 -5.54457 -6.09465 -2.83467 -4.5792
Load
in
KN
Maxi.
Stress in
N/mm2
Maxi.
Stress in
N/mm2
Maxi.
Stress
in
N/mm2
Maxi.
Stress
in
N/mm2
Sj=1.29 Sj=2.05 Sj=0.75 Sj=0.18
5 1.5166 0.67842 1.3244 2.18446
10 3.0332 3.00113 2.64879 3.8436
15 4.543 3.2643 3.55204 4.4024
20 6.5429 3.50445 7.08526 6.82696
25 8.0439 4.00889 8.40464 7.9676
30 10.0439 4.678425 9.2199 9.9624

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CONCLUSIONS
1) As load increases displacement, minimum stress and
maximum stress also increases.
2) For stiffness variation of corner joint for Sj=0.18 the
displacement is minimum as compare to Sj=1.29,
Sj=2.05, Sj=0.75.
minimum stress is more as compare to Sj=1.29 and
Sj=2.05,for Sj=0.75 the minimum stress is maximum as
compare to Sj=0.18.
maximum stress is more as compare to Sj=1.29 and
Sj=2.05,for Sj=0.75 the maximum stress is maximum as
compare to Sj=0.18.
5) For stiffness variation of Exterior joint for Sj=1.29 the
displacement is minimum as compare to Sj=2.05,for
Sj=0.75 and for Sj=0.18 the displacement is maximum as
compare to Sj=1.29.
minimum stress is more as compare to Sj=2.05 and
Sj=0.75,for Sj=0.18 the minimum stress is more as
compare to Sj=1.29.
maximum stress is less as compare to Sj=2.05.for
remaining stiffness Sj=0.75 and Sj=0.18 the maximum
stress is less. ( minimum )
8) As stiffness of the structure changes the displacement,
minimum stress and maximum stress changes Non-
linearly.
9) The behavior of corner beam column joint is different
than that of the exterior beam column joint.
Where Sj=Joint Stiffness factor i.e. Stiffness of Beam /
Stiffness of Column Ratio
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BIOGRAPHIES:
Prof. Patil S.S, B.E. (Civil), M.E. (Civil -
Structures) ,PhD**
Mr. Manekari S.S.B.E. (Civil), M.E. (Civil -
Structures),L.M.( ISSE)

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