Seismic Performance of Prestressed Reinforced Concrete Piles Reinforced with Nonprestressed Reinforcements

摘要

The main purpose of this paper is to study the seismic performance of prestressed reinforced concrete pile (PRC pile) reinforced with nonprestressed reinforcements. Two prestressed high strength concrete piles (PHC piles) and two PRC piles were tested. The variables studied in this research are the prestressed reinforcements ratio and nonprestressed reinforcements ratio. The piles subjected to low-cycle loading were presented in this paper, including the hysteretic performance, stiffness degradation curves, coefficient of equivalent viscous damping and skeleton-frame curves. It is shown that the failure modes of all specimens are bending damage from the test and PRC piles have good energy-absorbing hysteretic behavior.