Load Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Continuous Deep Beams
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 134, Issue 6
Abstract
Most codes of practice, such as EC2 and ACI 318-05, recommend the use of strut-and-tie models for the design of reinforced concrete deep beams. However, studies on the validity of the strut-and-tie models for continuous deep beams are rare. This paper evaluates the strut-and-tie model specified by ACI 318-05 and mechanism analysis of the plasticity theory in predicting the load capacity of 75 reinforced concrete continuous deep beams tested in the literature. The influence of such main parameters as compressive strength of concrete, shear span-to-overall depth ratio, main longitudinal bottom reinforcement, and shear reinforcement on the load capacity is also investigated using both methods and experimental results. Experimental results were closer to the predictions obtained from the mechanism analysis than the strut-and-tie model. The strut-and-tie model highly overestimated the load capacity of continuous deep beams without shear reinforcement.
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant No. UNSPECIFIEDKRF-2004-041-D00746 and the Regional Research Centers Program (Bio-housing Research Institute), granted by the Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development. The writers wish to express their gratitude for financial support.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 134 • Issue 6 • June 2008
Pages: 919 - 929
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Received: Sep 20, 2006
Accepted: Aug 8, 2007
Published online: Jun 1, 2008
Published in print: Jun 2008
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Note. Associate Editor: Bing Li
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