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Seismic Retrofitting of Bridge Piers Using Pre-stressed Fe-SMA Rebars
The unique self-prestressing characteristics exhibited by iron-based shape memory alloys (Fe-SMA) make them a promising alternative for a wide range...
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Dowel behaviour of rebars under combined axial and shear actions
The resource of shear resistance provided by the dowel mechanism of rebar in reinforced concrete (RC) structures can significantly affected by the...
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Reliability-based analysis of the flexural strength of concrete beams reinforced with hybrid BFRP and steel rebars
The durability of reinforced concrete structures has always been an important problem in civil engineering because steel rebars rust easily....
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Fatigue shear performance of concrete beams reinforced with hybrid (glass-fiber-reinforced polymer + steel) rebars and stirrups
Reinforced concrete beams consisting of both steel and glass-fiber-reinforced polymer rebars exhibit excellent strength, serviceability, and...
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FRC Plates Design in Bending: From the Italian Code to EC2
In this paper we are reporting the structural response of fourteen concrete plates of 2000 × 2000 × 150 mm of dimensions that were tested in three...
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Shear behavior of reinforced concrete beams with wire rope shear reinforcement
The use of high-strength and highly flexible wire ropes as internal shear reinforcement may be a solution to reduce the congestion of steel...
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Experimental Evaluation of the Cyclic Behaviour of Different Smooth Rebar Anchoring Layouts
The existing reinforced concrete frame structures built before the 1970s were designed only for gravity loads, and they were mainly built using...
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Seismic Behavior of Low-rise Concrete Shear Wall with Single Layer of Web Reinforcement and Inclined Rebars: Restoring Force Model
In order to study the restoring force model of low-rise concrete shear wall with single layer of web reinforcement and inclined rebars, a series of...
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Numerical Investigation of Cracks at Girder Ends of Prefabricated Post-Tensioned Prestressed Concrete I-Girders
Prefabricated post-tensioned prestressed concrete (PTC) girders with high degrees of prestressing have been developed continuously in recent bridge...
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Research on Crack Control Method of Girder End Anchorage Zone Based on Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
A new, contemporary post-tensioned prestressed concrete I girder is created for a hydropower facility to accommodate larger loads in services. The...
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Cyclic Performance Evaluation of Interlinked Coupler-Box Confinement as a Local Retrofitting Technique
An innovative coupler-box confinement technique is proposed to interconnect the longitudinal reinforcing bars of columns at their potential plastic...
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Experimental Study on the Use of Steel Double-Headed Studs in Slab-to-Precast Girder Connection
Design of the connections in bridges is always of great importance to bridge engineers. Since the use of double-headed studs is proven to be more...
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Development of an Innovative 3D-Printing Process for Reinforced Concrete – AMoRC Method
In this paper, a novel 3D printing process for reinforced concrete structures called Additive Manufacturing of Reinforced Concrete (AMoRC) is...
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Experimental study of corrosion-caused corner cracking using digital image correlation
Cover cracking caused by rebar corrosion is one of the most predominant deterioration problems of reinforced concrete structures. Cracking types...
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Seismic behavior of high-rise reinforced concrete walls with flange subjected to corrosion under low cyclic loading: an experimental research and numerical model
As a result of chloride ion erosion, corrosion of steel bars in coastal or deicing salt environments deteriorates reinforced concrete’s (RC)...
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Experimental Study on the Performance of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Pretensioned Concrete Beams
The use of FRP tendons as an alternative to conventional steel strands in prestressed concrete structures is very limited. There are many aspects...
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Shear Crack Resistance of I-Shaped Concrete Beams with Basalt FRP Stirrups
This paper presents the results of experimental research on the shear crack resistance of I-shaped beams with BFRP transverse reinforcement....
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Study on Flexural and Shear Behavior of UHPC Rhombus-Strip-Shaped Joint
Accelerated bridge construction (ABC) has many advantages for bridge construction in modern society. While for ABC, the post-cast joint is always the...
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Experimental flexural investigation of RC beams with impeded steel truss using smooth steel angels
This paper emphasizes on testing the flexural capacity of Hybrid Steel Truss Reinforced Concrete Beam (HSTRCB), where a prefabricated steel truss is...
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Shear strengthening of RC 3D exterior beam-column joints with CFRP sheets an experimental and numerical study
The present article presents the numerical and experimental investigations carried out on CFRP shear strengthening of full-scale RC 3D exterior...
