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Table 2 Summary results from low cycle fatigue tests on Grade 80 bars.

From: High-Strength Reinforcing Steel Bars: Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior Using RGB Methodology

Slenderness ratio L/d

Young’s modulus \(E_{s}\) (MPa)

Nominal strain amplitude \(\epsilon _{nom}\)

Total strain amplitude \(\epsilon _{a}\)

Max. transverse displ. \(w_{max}\) (mm)

Half-cycles to failure \(2N_{f}\)

Total dissipated energy \(W_{fT}\) (MPa)

5

200013

0.020

0.011

4.2

246

1571

206458

0.035

0.031

7.1

34

826

201422

0.050

0.045

8.3

14

490

10

200579

0.021

0.020

11.8

42

292

208617

0.031

0.031

15.1

18

258

194772

0.051

0.045

15.9

8

140

15

206421

0.011

0.009

12.3

120

265

208828

0.031

0.031

21.3

18

158

207797

0.051

0.037

24.0

10

97