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- Title
Assessment of Performance of Reinforced Concrete Strips by In-Place Load Testing.
- Authors
De Luca, Antonio; Zadeh, Hany Jawaheri; Nanni, Antonio
- Abstract
A three-story apartment building on the University of Miami campus, built in 1947 and scheduled for demolition in the spring of 2011, was used as a research test bed. Two identical strips of the one-way reinforced concrete (RC) slab of the first floor of the building were saw cut and load-tested according to the ACI437-12 load test protocol. After conducting the load test, the slab strips were loaded to failure. This allowed for observations on the margin of safety with respect to failure, a determination that is not generally possible in a proofload test. The analysis of the results provides experimental evidence on the validity of the load test practice for the assessment of structural members.
- Subjects
CONCRETE slabs testing; REINFORCED concrete testing; APARTMENT buildings; CYCLIC loads; BUILDING demolition
- Publication
ACI Structural Journal, 2013, Vol 110, Issue 5, p813
- ISSN
0889-3241
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14359/51685834