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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003213739707536

Titolo

Minimum reinforcement in concrete members [e-book] / editor, Alberto Carpinteri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, c1999

ISBN

9780080430225

0080430228

Descrizione fisica

viii, 203 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

ESIS publication ; 24

Altri autori (Persone)

Carpinteri, Alberto

Disciplina

624.183423

Soggetti

Flexure - Congresses

Concrete beams - Testing - Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Preface. Scale Effects and Transitional Failure Phenomena of Reinforced Concrete Beams in Flexure (A. Carpinteri <IT>et al.</IT>). Fracture Mechanical Prediction of Transitional Failure and Strength of Singly-Reinforced Beams (D. Lange-Kornbak, B.L. Karihaloo). Size Effect and Bond-Slip Dependence of Lightly Reinforced Concrete Beams (G. Ruiz <IT>et al.</IT>). Behaviour of R/C Elements in Bending and Tension: The Problem of Minimum Reinforcement Ratio (A.P. Fantilli <IT>et al.</IT>). Size Effects on the Bending Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Beams (R. Brincker <IT>et al.</IT>). Minimum Reinforcement Requirement for RC Beams (J. Ozbolt, M. Bruckner)

Sommario/riassunto

The ESIS-Technical Committee 9 on Concrete was established in 1990 and has met seven times. A proposal was put to European and extra-European laboratories entitled "Scale effects and transitional failure phenomena of reinforced concrete beams in flexure" which lead to several positive responses. <P>The central topic discussed by the committee was that of the minimum reinforcement in concrete members. The minimum amount of reinforcement is defined as that for which "peak load at first concrete cracking" and "ultimate load after steel yielding" are equal. In this way, any brittle behaviour is avoided as well as any localized failure, if the member is not over-reinforced. In other words, there is a reinforcement percentage range, depending on the size-scale, within which the plastic limit analysis may be applied



with its static and kinematic theorems. <P>Carpinteri, Ferro, Bosco and El-Katieb propose a LEFM model, according to which reinforcement reactions are applied directly on the crack surfaces and a compatibility condition is locally imposed on the crack opening displacement in correspondence with the reinforcement. The theoretical model is found to provide a satisfactory estimate of the minimum percentage of reinforcement that depends on the scale and enables the element in flexure to prevent brittle failure