Location
London
Event Website
http://www.csce2016.ca/
Description
Steel-reinforced elastomeric isolators (SREIs) have been shown to be efficient devices to protect structures against moderate and severe earthquakes by isolating them from ground motions. Bridge elastomeric isolators, however, deteriorate when undergone repetitive loading cycles due to either earthquakes or traffic loadings. One major damage type observed dominantly in these devices is delamination or de-bonding between rubber and supporting plates and steel reinforcements, if cold-bonded. This paper investigates potential damage scenarios likely to occur in cold-bonded bridge SREIs. It also looks into bonding properties of rubber and steel in tension and shear, the two important functional characteristics of elastomeric isolators. In this study, experimental tests are employed in order to observe the bonding behavior between rubber and steel. Damage states have been organized and it is observed that the adhesive properties and level of shear deformations govern bonding characteristics.
Included in
STR-925: BONDING BEHAVIOR IN BRIDGE STEEL-REINFORCED ELASTOMERIC ISOLATORS
London
Steel-reinforced elastomeric isolators (SREIs) have been shown to be efficient devices to protect structures against moderate and severe earthquakes by isolating them from ground motions. Bridge elastomeric isolators, however, deteriorate when undergone repetitive loading cycles due to either earthquakes or traffic loadings. One major damage type observed dominantly in these devices is delamination or de-bonding between rubber and supporting plates and steel reinforcements, if cold-bonded. This paper investigates potential damage scenarios likely to occur in cold-bonded bridge SREIs. It also looks into bonding properties of rubber and steel in tension and shear, the two important functional characteristics of elastomeric isolators. In this study, experimental tests are employed in order to observe the bonding behavior between rubber and steel. Damage states have been organized and it is observed that the adhesive properties and level of shear deformations govern bonding characteristics.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/csce2016/London/Structural/74
