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Evaluation of Shear Strength of HSRC beams without web reinforcement

Research Authors
Ahmed Ramadan, Aly G. Aly Abd-Elshafy, Mahmoud H. Ahmed, Atif M. Abdel-Hafez
Research Member
Research Department
Research Year
2013
Research Journal
CSM 2013-Second International Conference on Advances in Civil, Structural and Mechanical Engineering, Hotel L-Nina et Convention Center - HongKong; 08/2013
Research Publisher
NULL
Research Vol
NULL
Research Rank
3
Research_Pages
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Research Website
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Research Abstract

Currently, there is no general agreement on a theory describing the response of reinforced concrete members without web reinforcement. Many structural systems rely on design is usually performed using empirical or semi-empirical expressions provided by codes of practice that do not consider the influence of many governing parameters. In this paper, a comparison between values of current experimental shear strength and those of various international design approaches [1-10] have been calculated and analyzed on 18 simple span HSRC deep beams without web reinforcement were tested under monotonic two point loads at the mid span to examine the contribution of various parameters on the shear capacity of HSRC beams like; f’cu=50 MPa, three values of tension reinforcement (0.73%,1.21% &1.83%) and shear span to effective depth ratio ( 2,1.5 &1) were selected to mainly study the behavior of deep beams, where typical shear failure can be anticipated.