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A. Recupero
Influence of bond deterioration on shear-flexure failure of prestressed girders with post-tensioned tendons
Internal prestressing with bonded tendons suffers corrosion of wires and bond deterioration due to the bad infill of grouted sheaths. Many bridge girders show this state through cracking, deflections and in the worst cases, sudden failures. In Italy these are common situations, and the internal tendon corrosion is among the major causes of bridge degradation and damage, especially for grouted post-tensioned tendons. This paper presents the analysis of failure of prestressed cross-sections considering shear and flexure in the case of bond deterioration due to corrosion of internal post-tensioned tendons. The structural behaviour is analysed for different typologies of bridge deck composed of…
Shear-flexure interaction of RC elements strengthened with FRP sheets
An approximate physical model for evaluation of the M-V interaction resistance domains for concrete elements strengthened with FRP sheets is presented. The reliability of the model in predicting flexureshear capacity is verified by a comparison with the results of several experimental tests.
LA SEQUENZA DI TESATURA NELLA COSTRUZIONE DEI PONTI STRALLATI CON IMPALCATO MISTO ACCIAIO-CALCESTRUZZO
Modello Esplicito Per La Resistenza A Taglio Di Travi In C.A. Con Armature Trasversali Disposte Secondo Due Giaciture
An analysis oriented mechanical model for shear strength evaluation of rc beams with transversal reinforcement with two different inclination, that required a numerical analysis, is tuned into a design oriented analytical model that can be handy utilized for practical design.
Degradation and rehabilitation of Gerber saddles of concrete bridges
In recent decades, many concrete bridges, built in the 60s and 70s of the 20th Century with a Gerber-girder scheme, show severe damage of the saddles due to concrete degradation and reinforcement corrosion. On the basis of the recent Ministerial Guidelines for the assessment of existing bridges, it is necessary to evaluate the state of the Gerber saddles in a large number of bridges on both main and secondary roads. To do this, it is necessary to apply flexible assessment procedures that can be adapted to several situations and that allow a speedy assessment of the intervention priorities. The methodologies of intervention represent the crucial point for a rapid rehabilitation of these infr…
Case-studies of corroded reinforced concrete bridges in Southern Italy
On Italian roads, a lot of reinforced concrete bridges were built in the 1950’s and 1960’s for short spans, before the advent of prefabricated structures. Many of these bridges, sited on principal or secondary roadways, show the effects of corrosion of reinforcements and high levels of damage, leading to the likelihood of achievement of the Ultimate Limit State, below the required performances of serviceability, especially in the case of Gerber saddles having strongly corroded reinforcements. Different case studies of bridges sited in Southern Italy (Sicily) are shown, allowing engineers to classify the main effects of damage in corroded structures with the Gerber static scheme (cantilever …
Stressing sequence of steel cable-stayed bridges built by cantilevering
The construction of cable-stayed bridges by cantilevering implies several changes of geometry, stress and strain patterns during the assemblage of segments. The main target to be satisfied in the construction process is the achievement of the required final geometry and of a convenient state of stress for self-weight and sustained loads. The sequence of stay stressing and the values of prestressing forces at each stage of segment assembling have the main role for reaching the desired result of design, due to the large redundancy of cable-stayed structures.Among the different procedures proposed in the literature for initial cable force determination, the Partial Elastic Scheme (PES) Method …
Conceptual design of bowstring bridges with steel-concrete composite deck
The behaviour of tied-arch (bowstring) bridges is very sensitive to the conceptual design of arch and deck. The geometry of the arch shape and the arch-tie joint as well as the construction sequence can modify the global behaviour. When the arch geometry moves away from the anti-funicular shape, bending moments appear in the arch and in the deck even for dead loads; additional bending moments can increase the total value of tension in the deck becoming critical for a composite deck because of possible cracking of the upper concrete slab. The conceptual design of tied arches with composite deck is presented here, in order to reduce the danger of concrete slab cracking and the amount of reinf…
Creep effects and stress adjustments in cable-stayed bridges with concrete deck
In construction stages of cable-stayed bridges with prestressed concrete deck, the influence of creep on stresses and strains is very important in order to foresee the final patterns of internal forces and displacements. In cantilever construction, the concrete deck can be considered, in each stage, as a continuous beam resting on elastic restraints, which modify with successive additions of new segments, until the last one has been assembled. In these stages stress relaxation in concrete occurs as well as vertical displacements increase. Ehen structure has been closed by inserting midspan segment, stress redistribution begins, due to creep. Deformation and internal force development in con…
Gli effetti di ritiro e viscosità nelle strutture verticali degli edifici alti. Analisi della sequenza di costruzione con metodi analitici e numerici
A model for SFRC beams without shear reinforcement
In this paper a physical model, for the prediction of ultimate shear strength of Steel Fibers Reinforced Concrete (SFRC) beams is developed from the plastic Crack Sliding Model (CSM) introduced by Zhang (1997), based on the hypothesis that cracks can be transformed into yield lines. In this work the effectiveness factors are recalculated for SFRC beams and some further developments are introduced in the CSM, taking into account the fundamental post cracking tensile strength contribute of SFRC. The proposed model is validate by a large set of tests collected in literature and some numerical analyses were carried out to show the influence of fibers on the failure beams mode.