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Resilience of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) Structural Members

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An original driving force behind the development of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) was the potential enhancement of structural safety given the collapse of some reinforced concrete structures under earthquake loads. Since then, extensive amounts of testing at the structural element level have demonstrated significant improvements in structural resilience characterized by delayed failure, limited degradation in structural function during the load event, and rapid recovery of structural functions postevents. These experiments have been conducted for beams, columns, beam-column connections, frames, and wall systems.

Apart from improving structural resilience, ECC has the potential to enhancing constructability by eliminating steel congestion when a large amount of steel is used to overcome severe member forces. This is accomplished by the intrinsic shear capacity of ECC so that the transverse reinforcing steel often adopted in seismic detailing is rendered unnecessary.

The compatible deformation between ECC and axial steel, even when both are loaded to beyond the elastic stage, allows large energy absorption in R/ECC members. The ability to strain-hardening to several percent tensile strain in ECC assures this compatible deformation and eliminates the commonly observed bond failure and bond splitting in concrete cover. Instead, distributed microcracking represents a commonly observed damage pattern of overloaded structural members.

This chapter describes the unique behavior of R/ECC structural members under fully reversed cyclic load and under impact load. The fundamental mechanisms behind the enhanced structural resilience are emphasized. The knowledge gained should be helpful in further structural designs by optimal utilization of the tensile ductility of ECC.

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Li, V.C. (2019). Resilience of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) Structural Members. In: Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58438-5_6

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