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Article history: This paper presents the first part of an experimental investigation carried out on a construction system
Received 23 July 2011 based on completed in situ sandwich panels with non-shear connectors, concerning the study of vertical
Revised 15 November 2011 panels used as structural walls. Compression tests with axial and eccentric loads were carried out on sev-
Accepted 2 December 2011
eral full scale panel specimens with different slenderness ratios in order to study the behaviour of panels
Available online 4 February 2012
under vertical in-plane forces. Additionally, diagonal compression tests were performed on square spec-
imens in different configurations in order to study the behaviour of panels under horizontal in-plane
Keywords:
forces. The most significant load–displacement diagrams for increasing load are illustrated and the failure
Sandwich panels
Bearing wall panels
modalities are discussed. The semi-composite behaviour of the panels, guaranteed by the internal layer of
Full scale compression test polystyrene and the reinforced concrete beams at the panel ends, is highlighted. Finally, some numerical
Diagonal compression test simulations are performed with non-linear finite element models and some useful design indications are
Finite element analysis given.
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194 F. Gara et al. / Engineering Structures 37 (2012) 193–204
tal campaign, including a large number of tests on floor and wall Prismatic specimens Cored specimens Metallic meshes
panels, cyclic tests on wall-floor connections and a load test on (MPa) (MPa) (MPa)
the floor of a full scale 3D mock-up, has been carried out. fcu = 21.95 fcu = 25.10 fm = 769.00
This first paper refers only to tests performed on wall panels. In fcfm = 5.52 fct = 2.40 Agt = 7.62
particular, the results of compression tests with axial and eccentric
loads carried out on panels with an internal layer of different thick-
ness, are presented. After that, the experimental results obtained on
panels with non-undulated polystyrene sheet and on panels with The concrete was characterised by means of tests on
undulated polystyrene sheet and half the number of connectors 40 40 160 mm specimens sampled during the cast, and tests
are discussed. Additionally, the results of diagonal compression on cored specimens with a diameter of 94 mm and length of
tests carried out on square specimens of different configurations 250 mm sampled from the reinforced concrete beams at the ends
in order to study the behaviour of panels under horizontal in-plane of the panel after the concrete curing. In accordance with EN ISO
forces are illustrated: wall standard panels, as well as wall panels 12504-1 [17], bending tests were first carried out to evaluate the
flexural strength of the rectangular specimens, then the two resul-
externally prestressed to simulate the effects of vertical loads and
panels stiffened with four orthogonal walls to simulate the behav- tant parts of the specimens were used for compression tests. A to-
tal number of eight specimens were prepared so that eight flexural
iour of the wall in a real building are considered. For each test,
the load–displacement diagram and the failure modalities are tensile tests and sixteen compression tests were performed. Table 1
reports the mean values of the compression (fcu) and flexural ten-
examined. Finally some numerical simulations, performed with
sile concrete strength (fcfm). The cored specimens were divided into
non-linear finite element models, are also reported and some useful
two sets, one of which was subjected to the compression test and
design indications are given.
the other to the indirect tensile splitting test, in accordance with
EN 12390-6 [18]. Four cored specimens were sampled and, conse-
2. Experimental campaign quently, four compression tests and four tensile splitting tests
were performed. The average values of compression strength (fcu)
The sandwich panels considered in this study are made of a and tensile concrete strength (fct) are reported in Table 1. From
sheet of polystyrene reinforced by two 80 mm 75 mm metallic these specimens, a mean value of 10500 MPa for the concrete
meshes assembled by means of steel connectors. The sheet of poly- elastic modulus (Ec) was also estimated.
styrene has an undulated profile and density of about 15–25 kg/ Tensile tests and weld shear strength tests were carried out on
m3. The galvanised welded wire meshes and the connectors six samples of metallic meshes following EN ISO 15630-2 [19].
welded orthogonally to the meshes, are made with U3 wires of Four samples reached the yield stress showing a very low ductility
high yield steel. Wall panels (WP) were completed simply by (less than 2). The mean values of tensile strength (fm) and percent-
spraying concrete onto the external surfaces of the sheet, first up age elongation at failure (Agt) are reported in Table 1.
to the metallic mesh and then up to the final thickness of the con- The other two samples showed a brittle fracture and a strength
crete layer, using manual tools or pumps (Fig. 1). A ready-mixed value which was about 20% lower than the yielding strength. It is
concrete, with sand no greater than 3 mm and specific additives worth noticing that the failure of all the mesh samples occurred
to improve adhesion and workability, was used. at a welded joint as a consequence of the welding disturbs. Finally,
the weld shear strength tests gave an average shear force of
2.1. Mechanical properties of materials 2.64 kN, which is 1.25 times greater than the wire yielding force,
as prescribed by the code. The mechanical properties of the inter-
In order to evaluate the mechanical properties of the used nal layer were obtained by means of shear tests according to the
materials, several tests were carried out on concrete, metallic Standard Test Method for Shear Properties of Sandwich Core Mate-
meshes and internal layer consisting of a polystyrene sheet and rials [20]. Samples with dimensions of 400 445 mm made of
metallic connectors. three concrete layers and two internal layers were tested. In
steel connectors
polystyrene
(a)
30 30
1S (80 mm) 3S (160 mm) 1S (80 mm) 5S (160 mm)
Load [kN]
Load [kN]
0 0
Displacement [mm] 5 Displacement [mm] 5
(b)
Fig. 2. Shear tests: (a) test configuration and (b) load–displacement cycles.
Table 3
120
Geometric characteristics of panels for compression tests.
2700 mm
2b.1 WP08 Eccentric 80 150
2b.2 WP08 Eccentric 80 150
3b.1 WP12 Eccentric 120 190
3b.2 WP12 Eccentric 120 190
4b.1 WP16 Eccentric 160 230
4b.2 WP16 Eccentric 160 230
X.1 WPN08 Eccentric 80 150
Y.1 WPH08 Eccentric 80 150
and one with eccentric load were performed for each kind of panel.
The list of all the panels with the overall thickness (h), the internal
120
layer thickness (c), and the kind of test performed are reported in
Table 3.
35 35 mm
For the diagonal compression tests, only 1120 mm 1120 mm
1120 mm WP08 panels were considered since the thickness of the internal
c
h layer does not influence the panel behaviour under in-plane forces.
In addition, prestressed and transversally stiffened panels were
Fig. 3. Panel for compression tests. considered in order to simulate the effects of vertical load and
the stiffening contribution of walls and floors orthogonal to the
panels, respectively. To better distribute the compression load,
thicknesses of the internal layer, 80 mm (WP08), 120 mm (WP12) two triangular reinforced concrete regions at two opposite corners
and 160 mm (WP16), were built. For each thickness, two panels of the standard wall panels (Fig. 5a) and two reinforced concrete
were tested under axial load and two under eccentric load. In addi- L-shaped beams in the stiffened panels (Fig. 5b) were built.
tion, two different kinds of wall panel were prepared for the com- In the prestressed panels two steel threaded bars are applied
pression tests: the WPN panel with a non-undulated polystyrene with prestressing loads of 30 kN and 90 kN. The list of all the
layer and the WPH panel with half the number of connectors specimens with overall thickness (h), internal layer thickness (c),
(Fig. 4). In these cases only one compression test with axial load prestressing forces and loading type are reported in Table 4.
Section B-B
B WP08 WPH08
A A
φ3
20
20
150
150
75
40 40 80 B
1120 80 15
1245
WP08
150
WPN08
80
1420 mm
1120 mm
1120 mm
A
A
1120 mm 150 1120 mm
(a) (b)
Fig. 5. Panels for diagonal compression tests: (a) wall panel and (b) transversally stiffened panel.
Table 4
Geometric characteristics of panels for diagonal compression tests.
2.3. Test configuration and instrumentation displacement. This static scheme simulates the restraint condition
of panels in real multi-storey buildings when connections between
For the compression tests the configuration of Fig. 6 was floor and wall panels produce negligible bending moments.
adopted: panels were placed vertically with the bottom end pinned In the axial compression tests the load is applied at the panel
(cylindrical pin) and the top end restrained so as to prevent lateral axis, while in the eccentric compression test the load is applied
reaction frame
S4
hydraulic
S5 jacks
S1
Svf Svb
Sf
S2
S3
cylindrical pin
Fig. 6. Compression tests with axial and eccentric load: test configuration and instrumentation.
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Svf Svf
Shf Shf
Fig. 7. Compression tests: overview and details of the top and bottom restraints.
Fig. 8. Diagonal compression tests of panels without and with prestressing load.
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1000 1000
WP08 WP12
Load [kN]
Load [kN]
500 500
Load [kN]
500 500
Fig. 10. Axial and eccentric compression tests: load-lateral deflection diagrams at mid-height of the panel.
compression tests, two with axial and two with eccentric load, 1000
carried out on specimens of the same typology (standard panels)
axial load
3.0 3.0
150 kN 4a.2 150kN 4b.2
300 kN 300kN
450 kN 450kN
600 kN 600kN
0 0
20 0 20 20 0 20
Lateral deflection [mm] Lateral deflection [mm]
(a) (b)
Fig. 12. Lateral deflection at different load stages: (a) axial load and (b) eccentric load.
Fig. 13. Specimens after failure (a) axially and (b) eccentrically loaded; (c) mesh failure.
800 800
Svb Svf
Load [kN]
Load [kN]
(a) (b)
Fig. 14. (a) Vertical deformation of the two concrete layers and (b) slip and separation between the concrete layers in axially and eccentrically loaded specimens.
concrete layers of the above mentioned specimens 2a.1 and 2b.2 longitudinal slip exhibits an initial nearly linear behaviour fol-
are plotted, for increasing axial (continuous line) and eccentric lowed by a non-linear behaviour until ultimate values of about
(dashed line) loadings. 1.5 mm. Compared to the slip, the separation is characterised by
These components are calculated from the vectorial decomposi- much lower values, which are practically negligible, meaning that
tion of the displacement recorded by transducers S4 and S5. The the two concrete layers deflect together.
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Table 6 reaching a diagonal tensile failure. In fact, for the other specimens
Diagonal compression tests: cracking load, ultimate load, and failure modes. concrete crushing occurred at the load application point. Specimen
Specimen First cracking load (kN) Failure load (kN) Failure modes C1, which is similar to specimen 5.2 but with transversal stiffening
5.1 144 302 a* walls, nearly simulates a pure shear test thanks to the diffusion of
5.2 129 342 a the vertical load along the panel perimeter guarantee by the trans-
5.3 118 332 a versal walls. The highest stress values are reached in the central
5.4 168 306 a part of panel C1, where tensile and compression stress values are
C1 103 341 b
C2 137 225 b*
similar. Diagonal tensile failure occurred with a load of 341 kN.
In Fig. 15a the largest crack is marked with a thick dashed line.
a – localised concrete crushing; b – failure due to diagonal tension. On the contrary, for specimen 5.2, a concentration of the compres-
*
Failure of one of the two concrete layers.
sion stresses occurred around the load application point, causing
the crushing of the concrete at a load value of 342 kN, as shown
The high values of the ultimate loads obtained, the influence of in Fig. 15b.
the slenderness ratio on the ultimate loads as well as the low val- The influence of transversal walls can also clearly be seen in
ues of relative displacement between the concrete layers confirm Fig. 16 where both the vertical shortening deformation (Svf and
that these wall panels behave as semi-composite elements. How- Svb) and the horizontal elongation (Sof and Sob) measured on the
ever, some aspects deserve to be discussed. First of all, it is worth two sides of specimen C1 (with transversal walls) (Fig. 16a) and
noticing that the slip between the two concrete layers is restricted specimen 5.2 (without transversal walls) (Fig. 16b) are reported.
not only by the shear deformable internal layer but also by the In the panel with transversal walls, at the first stage of loading,
solid reinforced concrete beams at the bottom and top ends of the average horizontal elongation is nearly equal to the vertical
the panels. Consequently, the results of the tests presented in this shortening deformation; later, after the cracking of the concrete
paper may be considered as representative only for real buildings layer, it becomes larger. On the contrary, in panels without trans-
in which the connections between floor and wall panels are built versal walls, at the first stage of loading, the average horizontal
with solid reinforced concrete regions. Furthermore, it is important elongation is lower than the vertical shortening and becomes sim-
to underline that the reinforced concrete beams at the panel ends ilar after concrete cracking.
also cause a higher degree of flexural restraint between the floor The effects of prestressing can be observed in the results of tests
and wall panels, which may lead to high values of vertical load on specimens 5.3 and 5.4, prestressed with forces of 30 kN and
eccentricity and, thus, to ultimate loads significantly lower than 90 kN respectively. The first concrete cracking appeared at a
the values obtained in the tests. slightly higher load for specimen 5.4 than for specimen 5.3. How-
With regard to the tests on WPN08 and WPH08 wall panels, ever, a lower failure load was achieved by specimen 5.4 than by
under both axial and eccentric load, the values of ultimate loads specimen 5.3, since the prestressing force incremented the
are similar to or higher than those obtained by standard panels compression stresses around the load application point where
WP08. These panels can therefore be considered as valid alterna- the failure occurred.
tives for standard panels even if a greater number of specimens Finally, it may be noticed that in all the tests performed, failure
should be tested to arrive at some general conclusions. did not occur suddenly but was always preceded by extensive
As regards the diagonal compression tests, Table 6 reports the diffuse concrete cracking. All the specimens were in fact already
first cracking load, the failure load and the failure modes. It is micro-cracked before the tests, due to concrete shrinkage and
worth noticing that specimens 5.1 and C2 were characterised by specimen handling. The micro-cracks constitute weak zones in
premature failure of one of the two concrete layers of the panels, the concrete where cracks may preferentially occur. Nevertheless,
due to a small undesired eccentricity of the axial load. For this rea- the specimens revealed a high capacity for stress redistribution
son, these results are not taken into consideration in the following thanks to the metallic mesh inside the concrete layers. However,
comments. High first cracking loads were observed for all the it should be underlined that the results considered here are
specimens, while concerning the ultimate load the only significant relevant to tests on symmetrically loaded panels, with the two
result is that provided by specimen C1, which is the only one concrete layers equally loaded; in reality this is an ideal condition
Fig. 15. Diagonal compression test: crack pattern at failure for panels (a) with and (b) without transversal stiffening walls.
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400 400
Sof Svf
Load [kN] Sof Svf
Load [kN]
200 200 Sob Svb
Sob Svb
C1 5.2
0 0
-4 0 2 -4 0 2
Displacement [mm] Displacement [mm]
(a) (b)
Fig. 16. Diagonal compression test: vertical shortening and transversal elongation of panels with (C1) and without (5.2) transversal stiffening walls.
that can only occur when concrete layers are connected by rein- A non-linear constitutive law [22] was considered for the con-
forced concrete beams. crete and a symmetric elasto-perfectly-plastic bilinear model for
the steel. The values of the mechanical parameters were deter-
mined from the results of the tests performed on the materials
3. Numerical simulation (paragraph 2.1). In particular the shear stiffness of the links joining
the two concrete layers was calculated by the equation
Compression tests were numerically simulated with a displace-
GAl hl
ment based non-linear static analysis taking into account both Ki ¼ ð2Þ
geometrical and material non-linearities, performed with the c c
structural analysis programme Seismostruct [21]. Specimens were where G = 3.2 N/mm2 is the mean value among those obtained with
modelled with non-linear finite element models. In particular 20 the shear tests for material characterisation, Al is the influence area
beam elements were used for each concrete layer. The nodes at of the links, c is the internal layer thickness and the factor hl/c takes
each end of the two concrete layers were joined with two rigid into account the difference between the length (hl) of the links and c
elements to simulate the reinforced concrete beams while the (Table 7).
internal nodes were joined with shear elastic links. The links are In Fig. 18 the load vs lateral deflection graphs obtained from
axially rigid and shear deformable with the shear stiffness pro- compression tests are compared with the results obtained from
vided by the internal layer (Fig. 17). the numerical analysis. The behaviour of eccentrically loaded pan-
The specimen is restrained with a cylindrical pin at the base and els is well-approximated by the numerical model while for axially
a horizontal support at the top. In simulating axial compression loaded panels a lower agreement between experimental and
tests a small eccentricity of the vertical was considered in order numerical results is achieved. In fact, the behaviour and the ulti-
to simulate geometrical imperfections of panels and uncertainties mate loads of real panels are largely influenced by geometrical
of the load position. To simulate eccentric compression tests the imperfections (not perfectly flat concrete layers, variability of
load was applied at the axis of a concrete layer (Fig. 17). In both thicknesses, etc.) that are difficult to evaluate and take into consid-
cases the vertical load was applied incrementally until failure of eration in a numerical model. However the numerical simulations
the sample was reached. may be considered satisfactory. Furthermore, in order to evaluate
the critical load Pb1 of panels, a buckling analysis was also carried
out using the same numerical model but considering a linear elas-
axial eccentric tic behaviour of the materials. Values of the buckling loads ob-
load load tained with these analyses (Pb1) are reported in Table 8 and also
in Fig. 18.
It can be observed that the Pb1 values seem to be approached by
the curves obtained with the non-linear models, considering
approximately axial loads. In order to highlight the semi-compos-
beam ite behaviour of the panels, the values of the Euler buckling load
element (Pb2), calculated in the hypothesis of zero shear stiffness of the
links are reported in Table 8 (values of Pb2 are twice the Euler buck-
ling load for a single concrete layer). Furthermore, the buckling
300 cm
load Pb3 are reported in the same table, where Pb3 was calculated
15 15
Table 7 400
Characteristics of the numerical model.
experimental
WP08 WP12 WP16
Load [kN]
f.e.m.
hl (mm) 115 155 195
200 (Ec)
Kl (N/mm) 9660 5786 4095
f.e.m.
(0.4Ec) C1
0
1300 2
Displacement [mm]
Pb1 = αPb3
Load [kN]
f.e.m. 2a.1 Fig. 19. Diagonal compression tests: comparison between experimental and
numerical results.
650
2a.1
2b.2
f.e.m. 2b.2 well-simulated by the model with the original concrete elastic
modulus Ec.
0
1300 At this load a first crack appeared which was associated with a
distinct horizontal segment in the load and displacement plot.
Pb1 = αPb3 After the first crack, the experimental curve is non-linear due to
Load [kN]
3a.2 f.e.m. 3a.2 the progressive cracking of the concrete. The numerical model with
650 3b.2 a reduced elastic modulus (0.4Ec) simulates quite well the global
behaviour of the cracked panel.
f.e.m. 3b.2 The ultimate load may be estimated by simplified formulas
found in technical scientific literature. In particular for the diagonal
0 compression test the following formula may be used:
1300
Pb1 = αPb3
f.e.m. 4a.1 2 1120 70 2:3
Pu ¼ 2Bstot fct ¼ ¼ 360 kN ð3Þ
1000
Load [kN]
4a.1
4b.2
650 where B is the width of the panel and stot is the overall thickness of
f.e.m. 4b.2 the concrete layers. The result is close to the ultimate load experi-
mentally evaluated for specimen C1. However, in real buildings,
the strength of panels under vertical and horizontal forces involves
0 not only the shear resistance but also the bending resistance,
5 10 15 20 25
Displacement [mm] depending on the overall dimensions of the wall. Moreover, the
influence of openings for doors and windows must be considered.
Fig. 18. Axial and eccentric load tests: comparison between experimental and
numerical results.
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