The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of tension stiffening and softening of concrete in reinforced concrete beams and beam-columns. Analytical models of beams and beam-columns are prepared and the results compared to experimental results previously conducted by Berwanger et al. (1960)
A layered model of the beams is developed and strains and stresses at various layers are computed. Moment-curvature relationships are then obtained from these. The stress-strain curves adopted are from El-Metwally and Chen (1989). The effects of tension stiffening and softening are included by adopting realistic stress-strain curves in both compression and tension. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/43661 |
| Date | 11 July 2009 |
| Creators | Prasad, M. N. Nagendra |
| Contributors | Civil Engineering |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | vii, 43 leaves, BTD, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | OCLC# 28807524, LD5655.V855_1993.P727.pdf |
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