Technical and economic efficiency of reinforced concrete elements with different types of reinforcement

Abstract

The article presents data on the bearing capacity of columns with various combinations of prestressed and conventional reinforcement. The areas of the most effective use of such structures with different eccentricities and flexibilities are shown. The ecology of reinforcement steel is an important task that the designers of reinforced concrete structures face. The creation of effective constructive solutions, that allow to combine high technical characteristics with economic use of reinforcement steel, has become urgent and is necessary for today's development of the construction industry. In the works [1,2,3,4,5] it was shown that the solution of these problems was possible by creating conditions for the full employment of building materials properties - reinforcement and concrete. The working reinforcement is characterized by its application in the conventional and prestretched forms. At the same time, the works done in the recent years show that reinforcement, subjected to precompression, can be used in the compressed zone [6,7,8]. It is most effective in rigid reinforced concrete columns. Thus, precompression of all longitudinal reinforcement or its part allows to increase the strength of non-flexible columns with not high relative eccentricities of the external longitudinal force. At the same time, in order to obtain the greatest effect caused by the precompression of the reinforcement, certain conditions must be observed.