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Zhuang Wang, Bing Wang, Haozhe Jiang and Ping Zhuge
To investigate the influence of external prestressing with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) tendons on the flexural and shear performance of reinforced concrete beams, a total of six simply supported beams with a length of 3.5 m and two two-span co...
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Huijuan Wang, Changyong Li, Sihao Song, Yao Wang, Qingxin Meng and Fenglan Li
Because researchers are aiming to restore the deformation and minimize the crack width of existing concrete structures, the strengthening technology of prestressed carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) is currently the focus of many studies and applicat...
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Tarniê Vilela Nunes Narques, Roberto Chust Carvalho, André Luis Christoforo, Fernando Júnior Resende Mascarenhas, Felipe Nascimento Arroyo, Florisvaldo Cardozo Bomfim Junior and Herisson Ferreira dos Santos
In project practice, the search for optimal solutions is based on the traditional process of trial and error, which consumes much time and does not guarantee that solutions found are the optimal solutions for the problem. Many studies have been developed...
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Pascal Fossat, Madhurima Kothakota, Mohamed Ichchou and Olivier Bareille
This work addresses the dynamic modeling of a negative stiffness absorber consisting of an assembly of curved beams. Design rules are derived from the orders of magnitude of stiffness and elastic energy stored by the negative stiffness elements. Although...
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Yicong Chen, Jialiang Zhou, Baochun Chen, Jiazhan Su and Camillo Nuti
The present study was conducted to clarify the flexural behaviors of the Composite Girders of a Prestressed Segmental Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) Channel and a Reinforced Conventional Concrete Deck (PSUC-RCCD). The girders can be used as bridg...
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Rihua Yang, Yiming Yang, Peng Liu and Xinzhong Wang
To study the effect of the local corrosion of prestressed steel strands on the shear failure mode and shear bearing capacity of concrete beams, unilateral steel strands in four post-tensioning prestressed concrete (PC) beams are corroded, and the shear t...
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Han Li, Jun Li, Yu Xin, Hong Hao, Tan D. Le and Thong M. Pham
This paper proposes using neutral axis locations to monitor and quantify the prestress force in post-tensioned precast segmental beams. Strain measurements are used to obtain the neutral axis locations of specific cross-sections of the precast prestresse...
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Wutong Yan, Liangjiang Chen, Bing Han, Huibing Xie and Yue Sun
Interfacial slip effects and the unbonded phenomenon of external tendons are the key mechanical features of the externally prestressed steel-concrete composite beams (EPCBs). In this paper, an 8-node fiber beam element is built for the nonlinear analysis...
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Lorenzo Franceschini, Beatrice Belletti, Francesco Tondolo and Javier Sanchez
One of the most urgent scientific needs from a technical and economic engineering point of view is the assessment of concrete structures suffering corrosion deterioration. However, the pursuit of this target in the case of corroded prestressed concrete (...
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Rebecca Asso, Marco Domaneschi, Giuseppe C. Marano, Fabrizio Palmisano and Giuseppe Palombella
European countries are characterized by an extensive infrastructural network, mainly built around the 1960s and 1970s. In that period prefabrication processes were starting to gain ground, and one of the most spread and studied typologies of bridges was ...
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