Testing methods are required for estimating prestress losses in Prestressed Concrete (PC) girder-bridges. They mainly include destructive approaches which cause significant damages. Conversely, dynamic nondestructive unsuitable. Given these findings, a novel method identifying residual force simply supported PC girder-bridges was implemented. Following the vertical load application three-point ...

steel corrosion of bars in concrete structures is a complex process which leads to the reduction of the cross-section bars and decreasing the resistance of the concrete and steel materials. in this study, reliability analysis of a reinforced concrete beam with corrosion defects under the distributed load was investigated using the enhanced hasofer-lind and rackwitz-fiessler (ehl-rf) method base...

concrete beams reinforced with glass fiber reinforced polymer (gfrp) bars exhibit large deflections and crack widths as compared with steel reinforced concrete beams due to the low modulus of elasticity of gfrp bars. different studies show that aci 318 equation for the effective moment of inertia ie does not predict deflection well for frp reinforced concrete beams. the purpose of this paper is...

In the present study, a new method for retrofitting reinforced concrete beam is introduced in which steel-concrete composite jackets containing steel fiber is used. For this purpose, 75% of the peripheral surface of reinforced concrete beams was initially reinforced using steel plates and bolts, and steel fiber reinforced concrete was used between the steel plates and the peripheral surfaces of...

Steel corrosion of bars in concrete structures is a complex process which leads to the reduction of the cross-section bars and decreasing the resistance of the concrete and steel materials. In this study, reliability analysis of a reinforced concrete beam with corrosion defects under the distributed load was investigated using the enhanced Hasofer-Lind and Rackwitz-Fiessler (EHL-RF) method base...

Accurate assessment of demand and capacity of structures is critical in developing performance-based design methodologies. In this research, new methods are presented towards quantifying demand and capacity of RCFT frames and members. An experimental database was compiled documenting local damage levels of RCFT members. The quantified information collected from the experiments was utilized in c...

experiments were carried out to observe the influence of loading type on concrete beam specimens. beam specimens made of similar concrete mixture with the same geometry were tested under three point static loading and low velocity drop weight impact loading. load – displacement behavior, absorbed energy dissipation capacity, stiffnesses, failure modes of beam specimens were obtained and discuss...

The structural system of prestressed concrete (PC) voided slab deck is intermediate between plate and girder. Therefore, the conventional design method is based on the assumption that the system is similar to the plate system or to the grid system. In this paper, the structural behavior of a continuous PC voided slab deck with three spans was analyzed by using the three dimensional solid finite...

HEPS-TF is the test facility of HEPS (High Energy Photon Source) of China. The magnet girders are used for supporting and positioning of the magnets. As the beam emittance is very low, the girder must has high adjusting precision and high stability. Besides, the girder should also be beam-based aligned. For these issues, two girder systems are designed. Both of them use cam mover mechanisms for...

The hinge joints of the assembled concrete multi-girder bridge (ACMGB) are main components transverse transmission loads and decline their capacity would lead to degradation cooperative working performance (TCWP) multi-beam system. As key this kind bridges, its severe result in single-girder-bearing phenomenon inducing collapse. In order detect TCWP timely, paper proposes a vibration-based moni...