Estimate of dynamic load capacity of reinforced concrete deep beam made of very high strength construction materials

The paper presents an analysis of the dynamic load capacity of a dynamically loaded rectangular reinforced-concrete deep beam made of high-strength materials, including the physical nonlinearity of the construction materials: concrete and reinforcing steel. The solution was acquired with the use of the method presented in [15]. The dynamic load capacity of the reinforced concrete beam was determined. The results of numerical solutions are presented, with particular emphasis on the impact of the very high strength of concrete and steel on the reinforced concrete beam’s dynamic load capacity. The work confirmed the correctness of the assumptions and deformation models of concrete and steel as well as the effectiveness of the methods of analysis proposed in the paper [1, 15] for the problems of numerical simulation of the behaviour of reinforced concrete deep beams under dynamic loads. Keywords: mechanics of structures, reinforced concrete structures, deep beams, dynamic load, physical nonlinearity