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May 1, 1999

Evaluating Performance of RC Beams Using Turn-of-the-Century Theories

Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 13, Issue 2

Abstract

With the widespread use of reinforced concrete (RC) constructions in the latter decades of the 19th century in the main countries of Europe, a number of studies have been performed with a view to evaluating the stress conditions in the structures built with this new material in mathematical terms. This paper deals with part of a research program, one of the purposes of which was to identify any impressions emerging from preliminary studies and investigations and having to do with current theories on RC or, in other words, to verify whether there is any historical continuity between the hypotheses lying behind the early theoretical formulations and our understanding of today. The various calculation methods for bending in singly reinforced slabs and rectangular beams available from the scientific and technical literature around the turn of the century, presented in the companion paper, are here numerically compared, to investigate whether and to what degree these verification and/or design methods are still reliable. The endpoint of the study was thus to provide an operator planning rehabilitation or restoration work with more efficient tools to facilitate a better philological interpretation of the structural behavior of historical RC structures.

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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 13Issue 2May 1999
Pages: 67 - 75

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Received: Mar 27, 1998
Published online: May 1, 1999
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