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L. C. Hollaway, M. Leeming ... 352 pages - Publisher: Woodhead Publishing; 1st edition (March, 1999) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1855733781 - ISBN-13: 978-1855733787 ...

The in situ rehabilitation or upgrading of reinforced concrete members using bonded steel plates is an effective, convenient and economic method of improving structural performance. However, disadvantages inherent in the use of steel have stimulated research into the possibility of using fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) materials in its place, providing a non-corrosive, more versatile strengthening system. This book presents a detailed study of the flexural strengthening of reinforced and prestressed concrete members using fibre reinforces polymer composite plates. It is based to a large extent on material developed or provided by the consortium which studied the technology of plate bonding to upgrade structural units using carbon fibre / polymer composite materials. The research and trial tests were undertaken as part of the ROBUST project, one of several ventures in the UK Government's DTI-LINK Structural Composites Programme. The book has been designed for practising structural and civil engineers seeking to understand the principles and design technology of plate bonding, and for final year undergraduate and postgraduate engineers studying the principles of highway and bridge engineering and structural engineering. Detailed study of the flexural strengthening of reinforced and prestressed concrete members using fibre reinforced polymer composites + Contains in-depth case histories...

Harvinder Singh ... 172 pages - Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (October, 2016) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 9811025061 - ISBN-13: 978-9811025068 ...

This book discusses design aspects of steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) members, including the behavior of the SFRC and its modeling. It also examines the effect of various parameters governing the response of SFRC members in detail. Unlike other publications available in the form of guidelines, which mainly describe design methods based on experimental results, it describes the basic concepts and principles of designing structural members using SFRC as a structural material, predominantly subjected to flexure and shear. Although applications to special structures, such as bridges, retaining walls, tanks and silos are not specifically covered, the fundamental design concepts remain the same and can easily be extended to these elements. It introduces the principles and related theories for predicting the role of steel fibers in reinforcing concrete members concisely and logically, and presents various material models to predict the response of SFRC members in detail. These are then gradually extended to develop an analytical flexural model for the analysis and design of SFRC members. The lack of such a discussion is a major hindrance to the adoption of SFRC as a structural material in routine design practice. This book helps users appraise the role of fiber as reinforcement in concrete members used alone and/or along with conventional rebars. Applications to singly and doubly reinforced beams and slabs are illustrated with examples, using both SFRC and conventional reinforced concrete as a structural material. The influence of the addition of steel fibers on various mechanical properties of the SFRC members is discussed in detail, which is invaluable in helping designers and engineers create optimum designs. Lastly, it describes the generally accepted methods for specifying the steel fibers at the site along with the SFRC mixing methods, storage and transport and explains in detail methods to validate the adopted design. This book is useful to practicing engineers, researchers, and students.

P. C. Varghese ... 250 pages -Publisher: PHI; 2nd edition (April, 2010) ...
Language: English - ASIN: B00K7YFUBI by Amazon Digital Services ...

 The book, in its second edition, is lecture-based, with each chapter discussing only one topic, and an in-depth coverage being given to the fundamentals. The new edition is incorporated with the summary of elementary design of reinforced concrete members as an Appendix for a quick evaluation of the approximate quantities of steel required in ordinary buildings. The chapter on earthquake design has also been revised. The book is intended for the students of civil engineering, and the practising engineers.

Norbert J. Delatte ... 445 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 2nd edition (May, 2014) ... 

Derrick Beckett ... 116 pages - Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (January, 1967) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 1489961607 - ISBN-13: 978-1489961600 ...

M. A. Mansur, Kiang-Hwee Tan ... 224 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (January, 1999) ... 
Language: English  - ISBN-10: 0849374359 - ISBN-13: 978-0849374357 ... 

This book compiles state-of-the-art information on the behavior, analysis, and design of concrete beams containing transverse openings. Discussions include: the need, effects, and classification of openings as well as the general requirements for fulfilling design * pure bending, combined bending, and shear - illustrated with numerical examples * torsion alone or in combination with bending and shear * large rectangular openings as well as opening size and location on beam behavior * methods for analyzing ultimate strength and serviceability requirements * effects of torsion in beams * large openings in continuous beams and their effects on possible redistribution of internal forces as well as guidelines and procedures for the design of such beams * effect of prestressing on the serviceability and strength of beams with web openings * design against cracking at openings and ultimate loads * Concrete Beams with Openings serves as an invaluable source of information for designers and practicing engineers, especially useful since little or no provision or guidelines are currently available in most building codes.

Post-Tensioning Inst. ... 370 pages - Publisher: Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI); (2006) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0977875202 - ISBN-13: 978-0977875207 ...

Published by the Post Tensioning Institute, this manual contains updated information on the current practices in the use, design, and construction of post- tensioning. The 6th Edition has been extensively rewritten and expanded from the 5th Edition. The Manual contains 12 new chapters that give design guidance on modern applications of post-tensioning. All of the original chapters have been totally revised and modified to reflect the current industry practices. New topics include Seismic Design, Post-Tensioned Concrete Floors, Parking Structures, Slab-on-Ground, Bridges, Stay Cables, Storage Structures, Barrier Cables, Dynamic and Fatigue, Durability, Inspection and Maintenance, and Field and Plant Certification. The Manual provides the industry standard for design and construction of post-tensioned structures. This book is an invaluable resource for practicing engineers, architects, students, educators, contractors, inspectors, and building officials. The 6th Edition of the Post-Tensioning Manual provides basic information and the essential principles of post-tensioning.

Yuxi Zhao, Weiliang Jin ... 204 pages - Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1st edition (March, 2016) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0128091975 - ISBN-13: 978-0128091975 ...

Antonine E. Naaman ... 1072 pages - Publisher: Techno Press; 2nd edition (April, 2004) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0967493919 - ISBN-13: 978-0967493916 ...

This 3rd (2012) edition integrates the provisions of the 2011 ACI Building Code and offers an extensive treatment of bridge analysis and design according to the 2010 AASHTO LRFD Specifications in text and examples. It was written to serve as a thorough teaching text, a comprehensive source of information, and a basic reference. It is intended for advanced students, professional engineers, and researchers. It emphasizes the fundamental concepts of analysis and design of prestressed concrete structures, providing the user with the essential knowledge and tools to deal with everyday design problems, while encouraging the necessary critical thinking to tackle more complex problems with confidence.

Amin Ghali, Renaud Favre, Mamdouh Elbadry ... 672 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 4th edition (November, 2011) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0415585619 - ISBN-13: 978-0415585613 ...

This text presents the most effective analysis for predicting the true stresses and deflections of concrete structures, accounting for creep and shrinkage of concrete and relaxation of prestressed reinforcement. Sustainability has become a major requirement in modern structures, which need to sustain satisfactory service over a longer life. It is not rare to specify a life span of 100 years for infrastructure such as bridges. This complete and wide-ranging study of stresses and deformations of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures focuses on design methods for avoiding the deflections and cracking that diminish serviceability. This fourth edition has a new emphasis on designing for serviceability. It has been comprehensively updated. It now includes 65 solved examples and more than 45 instructive problems with answers given at the end of the book. An accompanying website contains design calculation programs, which allow interactive data input. Independent of codes of practice, the book is universally applicable, and is especially suitable for practising engineers and graduate students.

R. T. L. Allen, S. C. Edwards, D. N. Shaw ... 
212 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (January, 1993) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0751400866 - ISBN-13: 978-0751400861 ...

This practical and comprehensive book enables the engineer to diagnose the cause of a fault, choose the appropriate remedial technique and ensure that the repair work is completed satisfactorily. It will be of value to all those who need to commission, supervise or carry out repairs to concrete structures.

Bill Mosley, John Bungey, Ray Hulse ... 424 pages - Publisher: Palgrave; 6th revised edition (2007) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 0230500714 - ISBN-13: 978-0230500716 ..

.Reinforced Concrete Design provides a straightforward and practical introduction to the principles and methods used in the design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. Fully revised and updated to conform to the final version of the new Eurocode 2, students and practitioners alike will find it a concise guide both to the basic theory and to design procedures. Appropriate design charts, tables and formulae are included as design aids and, for ease of reference, an appendix contains a summary of important design information. Features of the sixth edition of this best-selling text: / Completely revised in line with the new and final Eurocode 2 / Numerous examples of the theory in practice / Important equations highlighted in the text / New section on seismic design All the authors are chartered engineers, each with more than twenty years of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Kenneth Leet, Dionisio Bernal ...
560 pages - Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3rd edition (December, 1996) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0070371008 - ISBN-13: 978-0070371002 ...

The new edition of Reinforced Concrete Design includes the latest technical advances, including the 1995 American Concrete Institute Building Code. Review questions and problem sets at the end of every chapter are identical to those your civil engineering undergraduates will encounter in practice.

Zongjin Li ... 624 pages -Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (February, 2011) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 047043743X - ISBN-13: 978-0470437438 ...

Over the past two decades concrete has enjoyed a renewed level of research and testing, resulting in the development of many new types of concrete. Through the use of various additives, production techniques and chemical processes, there is now a great degree of control over the properties of specific concretes for a wide range of applications. New theories, models and testing techniques have also been developed to push the envelope of concrete as a building material. There is no current textbook which brings all of these advancements together in a single volume. This book aims to bridge the gap between the traditional concrete technologies and the emerging state-of-the-art technologies which are gaining wider use.

Comite Euro-International Du Breton ...
240 pages - Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd.; (October, 1994) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 0727719378 - ISBN-13: 978-0727719379 ...

Modern fastening techniques are increasingly being used to transfer loads into concrete and masonry structures. In spite of this fact knowledge of the behaviour of such systems is very limited and there is no generally accepted design method.

This book has been written by a group of eminent authors from western Europe, Canada, the USA and Japan and with the specific aim of: Compiling and comparing published research on the behaviour of fastening systems; proposing a consistent approach to the design of fastenings based on current empirical and theoretical models; and developing design methods that account for the effects of fastenings to concrete and masonry structures for all types of load including monotonic, sustained, fatigue, seismic and impact loads as well as the influences of environmental effects.

In this report, the behaviour of fastenings in concrete and masonry for the entire range of loading types, as well as the influence of the environmental effects, is reviewed, based on experimental results from various parts of the world. The existing design approaches are compared with the available experimental data, and a consistent design method is recommended.

The publication is applicable to both new constructions and the repair and strengthening of existing structures.

The FIB (International Federation for Structural Concrete) ... 130 pages - Publisher: FIB; (2008) ...
Language: English - ISBN-13: 978-2883940826 ...

High Strength/High Performance Concrete (HSC/HPC) continues to be the object of particular interest and extensive research, and its use in construction is increasing continuously. fib Bulletin 42 summarises the available information on the material behaviour of HSC/HPC, and develops a set of code-type constitutive relations as an extension of CEB-FIP Model Code 1990.

Literature on experimental data and international guidelines, standards and recommendations were reviewed, and already-existing constitutive relations and models were evaluated. In addition to a number of material laws chosen and adjusted for this report, some new constitutive relations were developed based on the collected data. The criteria for the choice of the existing relations as well as the development of the new constitutive relations involved their simplicity and operationality (code-type mathematical formulations). Furthermore, they had to be physically sound and if possible describe the behaviour of both high-performance and normal strength concretes by a unique relation. Finally, compliance with the specifications given in the CEB-FIP Model Code 1990 was examined.

This State-of-art report is intended for engineers and represents a summary of the relevant knowledge available to and possessed by the members of the Task Group at the time of its drafting.

Zdenek P. Bazant, Jaime Planas ... 640 pages - Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (December, 1997) ...
Language: English - ISBN-10: 084938284X - ISBN-13: 978-0849382840 ...

Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials is the first in-depth text on the application of fracture mechanics to the analysis of failure in concrete structures. The book synthesizes a vast number of recent research results in the literature to provide a comprehensive treatment of the topic that does not give merely the facts - it provides true understanding. The many recent results on quasibrittle fracture and size effect, which were scattered throughout many periodicals, are compiled here in a single volume. This book presents a well-rounded discussion of the theory of size effect and scaling of failure loads in structures. The size effect, which is the most important practical manifestation of fracture behavior, has become a hot topic. It has gained prominence in current research on concrete and quasibrittle materials. The treatment of every subject in Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials proceeds from simple to complex, from specialized to general, and is as concise as possible using the simplest level of mathematics necessary to treat the subject clearly and accurately. Whether you are an engineering student or a practicing engineer, this book provides you with a clear presentation, including full derivations and examples, from which you can gain real understanding of fracture and size effect in concrete and other quasibrittle materials.

Mehdi Setareh, Robert Darvas ... 680 pages - Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (August, 2016) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 3319241133 - ISBN-13: 978-3319241135 ...

This revised, fully updated second edition covers the analysis, design, and construction of reinforced concrete structures from a real-world perspective. It examines different reinforced concrete elements such as slabs, beams, columns, foundations, basement and retaining walls and pre-stressed concrete incorporating the most up-to-date edition of the American Concrete Institute Code (ACI 318-14) requirements for the design of concrete structures. It includes a chapter on metric system in reinforced concrete design and construction. A new chapter on the design of formworks has been added which is of great value to students in the construction engineering programs along with practicing engineers and architects.  This second edition also includes a new appendix with color images illustrating various concrete construction practices, and well-designed buildings. The ACI 318-14 constitutes the most extensive reorganization of the code in the past 40 years. References to the various sections of the ACI 318-14 are provided throughout the book to facilitate its use by students and professionals. Aimed at architecture, building construction, and undergraduate engineering students, the scope of concepts in this volume emphasize simplified and practical methods in the analysis and design of reinforced concrete. This is distinct from advanced, graduate engineering texts, where treatment of the subject centers around the theoretical and mathematical aspects of design. As in the first edition, this book adopts a step-by-step approach to solving analysis and design problems in reinforced concrete. Using a highly graphical and interactive approach in its use of detailed images and self-experimentation exercises, “Concrete Structures, Second Edition,” is tailored to the most practical questions and fundamental concepts of design of structures in reinforced concrete. The text stands as an ideal learning resource for civil engineering, building construction, and architecture students as well as a valuable reference for concrete structural design professionals in practice.