... British standards & codes of practice shear The shear strength of reinforced concrete beams is significantly enhanced by arching action when loads are applied to the top face of the beam within around twice the beam effective depth (d) of the supports. Many researchers have investigated...

... British standards & codes of practice durability-related properties High-performance concrete (HPC) is a concrete that has been designed to be more durable and, if necessary, stronger than conventional concrete. In the 1970s and 1980s, the focus was generally on high-strength HPC. Today...

... rights reserved 2019 aggregates British standards & codes of practice compressive strength To develop the full impact of the global research, the following main steps were undertaken. Constructing assets in concrete offers many unique advantages over other materials, including...

... of contraflexure ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2018 beams & girders British standards & codes of practice shear structural design Current codes of practice for the design of reinforced-concrete (RC) structures have been developed within the context of the limit-state...

... l_b along a bar of diameter ∅ . ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2018 bond British standards & codes of practice reinforcement Reinforcement laps and anchorages rely on force transfer between reinforcement and concrete through bond. The average bond stress between two...

..., but significantly overestimates crack widths if the worst case of end restraint is assumed. ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2017 British standards & codes of practice cracks & cracking reinforcement where ε_free is the free strain that would occur...

... ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2016 British standards & codes of practice punching structural design where J_c is a property of the critical section analogous to polar moment of inertia, which is defined by MacGregor and Wight (2005) for edge–column...