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http://dx.doi.org/10.4334/JKCI.2013.25.6.683

Failure Behaviour and Shear Strength Equations of Reinforced Concrete Deep Beams  

Won, Dae-Yon (Research Center of Girder Innovation Forever, Ltd.)
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Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute / v.25, no.6, 2013 , pp. 683-691 More about this Journal
Abstract
Failure behaviour of deep beams is largely depend on shear span to effective depth ratio(a/d). For deep beams with $a/d{\leq}1.0$, the diagonal splitting of the web and local crushing of concrete near applied loads or supports is the most common failure mode. If the beam contains sufficient web reinforcement, area of local crushing will be increased while area of diagonal splitting is decreased. When web reinforcement above purpose, web should be reinforced both in the horizontal and vertical directions or be reinforced in perpendicular direction to diagonal cracks. For deep beams with 1.0, the increment of shear strength by the horizontal web reinforcement are hardly expected unless amount of main bars very small that the main bars should be reached yielding state when shear failure occurs. In contrast, the vertical web reinforcement prevent the beam from being transferred to tied arch mechanism, and as a result th shear strength of beam increase. In this study, formulas based on upper bound theorem of plastic theory are proposed to predict the shear strength of reinforced concrete deep beams with $a/d{\leq}1.0$. Comparisons with other experiment results are performed, and good agreement between measured and predicted value by proposed formulas is obtained.
Keywords
deep beams; failure mode; web reinforcement; upper bound theorem; shear strength;
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