%0 Journal Article
%T Bending-Shear Interaction Domains for Externally Prestressed Concrete Girders
%A Antonino Recupero
%A Michele Fabio Granata
%J Advances in Civil Engineering
%D 2013
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2013/580646
%X In prestressed concrete structures, the evaluation of the safety level is generally carried out by separating the bending moment strength and the shear force capacity. Actually interaction between bending moment (M) and shear force (V) can have significant consequences on evaluations in service life, especially when the ultimate limit state (ULS) is considered. In this paper, the M-V interaction is addressed for prestressed concrete girders, in the cases of both bonded and unbonded prestressing tendons. It can be demonstrated, by drawing the interaction domains (M-V), that a significant reduction of the safety level has to be considered when shear force is evaluated together with bending moment on the ULS of the cross-section, especially for external prestressing in concrete T-shaped or box sections of bridge girders. Interaction domains allow designers to evaluate and optimize reinforcement ratios, geometric properties of the beam, and effects of shear on the ultimate state. An analytical model, based on the stress field theory, is developed and proposed in this paper. A numerical example is developed and interaction domains are given for an example of a box section with variation in reinforcement ratio and tendon slope. A validation of the presented model is given, by comparing experimental data in the literature with results found using the proposed analytical approach. 1. Introduction In the last few decades many concrete structures with external prestressing have appeared, especially in the field of small and medium span bridge girders. Unbonded prestressing is a technology which is rapidly spreading for new constructions and for the rehabilitation and retrofitting of existing ones [1, 2]; many interventions with external prestressing have been carried out for strengthening existing deteriorated bridges [3] and this technique provides an efficient and cheap solution for a wide range of bridge typologies. On the other hand, suitable conceptual tools which clarify the behaviour of these structures have not been consolidated, especially for ultimate behaviour under shear and shear-bending moment interaction, although valuable contributions have been made in this direction [4]. Moreover, for reinforced concrete (RC) structures it is known that the actual behaviour near collapse is greatly influenced by the interaction between shear, bending moment, and axial force [5, 6]. Bairan Garcia and Mar¨¬ Bernat [7¨C9] studied the shear-bending-torsion interaction in structural concrete members by a nonlinear approach and a coupled model for section analysis
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