Analysis of steel-reinforced high-strength concrete deep beam displacement under dynamic loads

The paper presents an analysis of the deformation of a dynamically loaded rectangular reinforced-concrete deep beam, including the physical nonlinearity of construction materials: concrete and reinforcing steel. The solution was acquired with the use of the method presented in [15]. The displacement of three plate types under various loads, up to dynamic load capacity depletion, was analysed. The results of numerical solutions are presented, with particular emphasis on the impact of the very high strength of concrete and steel on the reinforced concrete plate displacement. The work confirmed the correctness of the assumptions and deformation models of concrete and steel as well as the effectiveness of the methods of analysis proposed in the paper [1, 15] for the problems of numerical simulation of the behaviour of reinforced concrete deep beams under dynamic loads. Keywords: mechanics of structures, reinforced concrete structures, deep beams, dynamic load, physical nonlinearity.