Bonding Performance at the Interface of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Anchors and Polymer Concrete

TL;DR

This study explores how resin concrete can improve bonding performance with GFRP bolts in coal mines, reducing the required anchoring length.

Contribution

The paper introduces a bond–slip constitutive model and experimental data showing how anchor diameter and length affect bond strength in resin concrete.

Findings

Bond strength decreases with increasing anchorage length and anchor diameter due to shear lag effects.

A bond–slip model with rising, descending, and residual branches is proposed for GFRP bolt–resin concrete systems.

Experimental results show average bond strengths decrease by up to 15.87% with larger anchor diameters.

Abstract

Currently, resin polymer anchoring agents are widely used for bolting support in coal mine roadways to anchor the bolts to the surrounding rock mass. However, due to the relatively low strength of the resin anchoring agent itself, the required anchoring length tends to be excessively long. Based on this, this paper proposes the use of resin concrete as a replacement for resin. Compared to resin anchoring agents, resin concrete offers greater mechanical interlocking force with anchor rods, which can reduce the theoretical anchoring length. To systematically investigate the influence of factors such as the diameter and anchorage length of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) bolt on the bond behavior between GFRP bolts and resin concrete, 33 standard pull-out tests were designed and conducted in accordance with the CSA S807-19 standard. Taking the 18 mm-diameter bolt as an example, when the bond lengths were 2D, 3D, 4D, and 5D, the average bond strengths were 41.32 MPa, 39.18 MPa, 38.84 MPa, and 37.44 MPa, respectively. This represents a decrease of 5.18%, 6.00%, and 9.39% for each subsequent increase in bond length. The results indicate that the bond strength between GFRP anchors and resin decreases as the anchorage length increases. Due to the shear lag effect, the average bond strength also decreases with increasing anchor diameter. Taking a 5D (where D is the anchor diameter) anchorage length as a reference, the average bond strengths for anchor diameters of 18 mm, 20 mm, 22 mm, and 24 mm were 37.44 MPa, 33.97 MPa, 32.18 MPa, and 31.50 MPa, respectively. The corresponding reductions compared to the 18 mm diameter case were 9.27%, 14.05%, and 15.87%. Based on the experimental results, this paper proposes a bond–slip constitutive model between the bolt and resin concrete, which consists of a rising branch, a descending branch, and a residual branch. A differential equation relating shear stress to displacement was established, and the functions describing the variation in displacement, normal stress, and shear stress along the position were solved for the ascending branch. Although an analytical solution for the differential equation of the descending branch was not obtained, it will not affect the subsequent derivation of the theoretical anchorage length for the GFRP bolt–resin concrete system, as structural components in practical engineering are not permitted to undergo excessive bond-slip.

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