Research Article

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM

Volume: 30 Number: 2 August 18, 2022
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NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM

Abstract

There has been increasing concern about the fire-resistant design of reinforced concrete tunnel lines among structural engineers due to the fire incidents that occurred recently. A limited number of experimental works focused on the fire behavior of the conventional reinforced concrete (RC) and hybrid fiber reinforced concrete (HFRC) tunnel segments have been presented in the literature. However, there is no comprehensive numerical study related to RC shield tunnel segments under the effect of elevated temperature. Thus, this study intends to establish a 3D finite element model (FEM) for the evaluation of the fire behavior of RC shield tunnel segments. At the first stage of the presented FEM, the temperature distribution that occurred in the RC tunnel segment was evaluated with a heat transfer analysis carried out. In the second stage, the stress analysis was conducted to calculate the load-displacement behavior of the RC tunnel segment under the combined effect of the gravity load and the elevated temperature. The results obtained from the FEM were compared with an experimental work existing in the literature. The fact that numerical analysis is compatible with experimental results proves that the presented FEM can be used in the determination of the behavior of RC shield tunnel segments subjected to elevated temperature.

Keywords

Tunnel segments, Finite element method, Elevated temperature

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APA
Yılmaz, T., & Akyüz, U. (2022). NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik Ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, 30(2), 289-299. https://doi.org/10.31796/ogummf.1100141
AMA
1.Yılmaz T, Akyüz U. NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi. 2022;30(2):289-299. doi:10.31796/ogummf.1100141
Chicago
Yılmaz, Tolga, and Uğurhan Akyüz. 2022. “NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik Ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi 30 (2): 289-99. https://doi.org/10.31796/ogummf.1100141.
EndNote
Yılmaz T, Akyüz U (August 1, 2022) NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi 30 2 289–299.
IEEE
[1]T. Yılmaz and U. Akyüz, “NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM”, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 289–299, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.31796/ogummf.1100141.
ISNAD
Yılmaz, Tolga - Akyüz, Uğurhan. “NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi 30/2 (August 1, 2022): 289-299. https://doi.org/10.31796/ogummf.1100141.
JAMA
1.Yılmaz T, Akyüz U. NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi. 2022;30:289–299.
MLA
Yılmaz, Tolga, and Uğurhan Akyüz. “NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik Ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 30, no. 2, Aug. 2022, pp. 289-9, doi:10.31796/ogummf.1100141.
Vancouver
1.Tolga Yılmaz, Uğurhan Akyüz. NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF RC TUNNEL SEGMENTS SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURE VIA FEM. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Mühendislik ve Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi. 2022 Aug. 1;30(2):289-9. doi:10.31796/ogummf.1100141