VALIDATION EXPERIMENT OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS WITHOUT SHEAR REINFORCEMENTS FOR VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF NUMERICAL METHODS

Abstract

 A validation experiment for reinforced concrete beams without shear reinforcements was carried out to validate the computational models in the verification and validation (V&V). Eleven beam specimens and thirty cylindrical specimens were prepared simultaneously under the same conditions to reduce uncertainty in the experiment. The four-point bend tests and material tests were performed by one operator using the same test machine in a short period in order to reduce human errors associated with testing. The non-linear finite element analysis was used to simulate the same mechanical behavior as the experiments. The experimental and numerical results revealed that the experimental data obtained in this study were suitable for comparison with numerical analysis and applicable as a validation experiment for validating computational models in the V&V.