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<p>A long-span Prestressed Concrete Hunched Beam with Multi-Quadrilateral Opening has been developed as an alternative to steel structural elements. An experimental program was created and evaluated utilizing a single mid-span monotonic static load on simply supported beams, which included six beams with openings and the solid control beam without openings, to investigate the performance of such beams. The number and height of the quadrilateral openings are the variables to consider. According to test results, the presence of openings in the prestressed concrete hunched beam with multi-quadrilateral opening did not considerably affect their ultimate load capacity with respect to a control beam (solid); the diminishing ratio of maximum strength capacity varied from 4.22 % to 13.5 %.</p>
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A long-span Prestressed Concrete Hunched Beam with Multi-Quadrilateral Opening has been developed as an alternative to steel structural elements. An experimental program was created and evaluated utilizing a single mid-span monotonic static load on simply supported beams, which included six beams with openings and the solid control beam without openings, to investigate the performance of such beams. The number and height of the quadrilateral openings are the variables to consider. According to test results, the presence of openings in the prestressed concrete hunched beam with multi-quadrilateral opening did not considerably affect their ultimate load capacity with respect to a control beam (solid); the diminishing ratio of maximum strength capacity varied from 4.22 % to 13.5 %.

Performance of Prestressed Concrete Hunched Beams with Multi-Quadrilaterals Openings

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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A long-span Prestressed Concrete Hunched Beam with Multi-Quadrilateral Opening has been developed as an alternative to steel structural elements. An...

Performance of Prestressed Concrete Hunched Beams with Multi-Quadrilaterals Openings

Publié en ligne: 14 déc. 2022

Pages: 461 - 471

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2022-0043

Mots clés
Quadrilateral openings, Hunched, Post-tension, Chord, Diagonal reinforcement

© 2022 Amjad Majeed Al-Hilali et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Performance of Prestressed Concrete Hunched Beams with Multi-Quadrilaterals Openings

Publié en ligne: 14 déc. 2022

Pages: 461 - 471

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2022-0043

Mots clésQuadrilateral openings, Hunched, Post-tension, Chord, Diagonal reinforcement

© 2022 Amjad Majeed Al-Hilali et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Quadrilateral openings, Hunched, Post-tension, Chord, Diagonal reinforcement