Size Effect: What Is Its Rationale and Penalty for Neglect
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Détails bibliographiques
| Auteur(s): |
Zdeněk Bažant
Qiang Yu |
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| Médium: | papier de conférence | ||||
| Langue(s): | anglais | ||||
| Conférence: | 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008 | ||||
| Publié dans: | IABSE Congress Chicago 2008 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 236-237 | ||||
| Nombre total de pages (du PDF): | 8 | ||||
| Année: | 2008 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137908796292416 | ||||
| Abstrait: |
Concrete is a typical quasi-brittle material, which inevitably exhibits size effect on the nominal structural strength. This study is focussed on the size effect in shear failure of reinforce concrete beams. By statistical analysis it is shown that if the size effect is ignored, the failure frequency (or probability) of large reinforced beams under shear may typically increase by three orders of magnitude. By computer simulations based on fracture mechanics it is further shown that shear reinforcement cannot eliminate the size effect in large reinforced concrete beams. |
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