Modelagem do comportamento estrutural estático e dinâmico de lajes nervuradas de concreto armado.

Abstract

Several researchers have studied the use of reinforced concrete ribbed slabs in civil engineering structural systems that can be viable when the technical and economical point of view is considered. For this reason, a lot of papers were published in the last years based on the experimental and numerical analysis of this slab type. In this context, several slab systems were developed and the reinforced concrete ribbed slabs is present among them. This way, this dissertation investigated the static and dynamic structural behaviour of reinforced concrete ribbed slabs used in civil engineering structures. This research work investigated the dynamic response of reinforced concrete ribbed slabs when subjected to the human rhythmic activities, focusing human comfort criteria. The dynamic loads were obtained through experimental tests with individuals carrying out rhythmic activities corresponding to aerobics (stimulated activities). The computational models are developed based on usual mesh refinement techniques present in finite element method simulations (FEM), implemented in the ANSYS program. In this computational model the reinforced concrete ribbed slabs and beams are represented by shell elements. The numerical results, in terms of peak accelerations, are compared with recommended limits proposed by design codes, under the point of view of human comfort. The reinforced concrete ribbed slabs dynamic analysis indicated that the actions produced by human rhythmic activities could generate peak accelerations that surpass design criteria limits developed for ensuring human comfort. Hence it was observed that the acceleration in the models studied, can achieve high levels of vibration that compromise the comfort of user s.