Análise experimental dos limites superiores de resistência à punção de lajes lisas de concreto armado com armaduras de cisalhamento

Abstract

In the flat slab system, the slab-column connection is a critical point due to the risk of punching shear failure. Several structural collapses are reported due to this mode of failure and constructive errors are the main causes of such accidents, leading researchers to study new shear reinforcement to minimize them. The use of shear reinforcement is the most efficient way to increase punching shear ductility and strength, but its correct arrangement generates conflict with the flexural reinforcement. Thus, Ferreira et al. (2016) propose a prefabricated truss reinforcement positioned internally to the flexural reinforcement, which generated the patent number BR 10 2015 006518 3 A2. Therefore, the work carried out in this research contributes to the investigation of cases of bidirectional shear for the present reinforcement. In this research, 5 experimental tests of reinforced concrete flat slabs submitted to symmetrical loading, containing both Stud Rails and the pre-fabricated truss reinforcement proposed by Ferreira et al. (2016) as shear reinforcement, were carried out. The study evaluated the performance of the reinforcement in relation to punching shear strength and analyzed the upper limits of strength, since a flexural reinforcement ratio of 2% and shear reinforcement ratios around 1% were used. The slabs were octagonal with a 2500 mm distance between parallel faces, side of 1036 mm and thickness of 210 mm, cast with concrete around 30 MPa and supported on columns with 400-mm-side. The following variables were analyzed: shear reinforcement type, slope and spacing of the shear reinforcement layers, as well as the design parameters of ACI 318 (2014), EC2 (2014), ABNT NBR 6118 (2014) and ETA 12/0454 (2012) codes. The experimental results show that the increase of load, in relation to the slab without shear reinforcement, reached up to 92%, with the use of pre-fabricated truss reinforcement, and 101% with the use of Studs, showing that the upper limit of ultimate load as a function of the concrete strength (Vu/Vc) can be limited to 2 and that the reinforcement studied in this research has a high commercial potential, since its cost per increment of load was lower than the one of the slab reinforced with Studs Rails, except for the design criteria suggested by ETA 12/0454, reducing the total cost by 15.6%.