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11 Jul 2007: 1 INTRODUCTION Experimental studies with reinforced concrete structures demonstrate that to achieve the ductility that you plan to study, the experimental test pieces have to be designed very carefully [1]. ... Compilation of the GSHAP regional seismic

11 Jul 2007: Failure of these structures causes great economic losses, serious impediment to post-earthquake emergency operations and long-lasting disruption of social and economic life. ... Element tests were carried out to evaluate the performance of sand under

11 Jul 2007: Zero shear lines. Strong bands. Middle strip. Column Strip. 2 Consider a simply supported squar2a. ... and Kiat, C. H., “Test of a 14-column irregular flat-plate floor”, Research.

11 Jul 2007: These relations can be found in and have been verified using published test data in [8]. ... Again, the structure but not the loading is symmetric about the middle support.

11 Jul 2007: Thirdly, the program was used to predict the failure mode anderimental tests on concrete slabs. ... Values ranged from 0.87 in test A2 to 1.33 in test C2, with the range being between 1.04 and 1.33 for the first 11 tests.

11 Jul 2007: The test program was designed to examine the effectiveness of spirals as lateral reinforcement. ... Fig. 9 shows the shear load test comparison for the cycled and the reference beams.

30 Jul 2007: After each test, photographs were taken of everyfracture surface. The fracture plane was seen to intersect oneor more tensiometers in 7 out of 17 tests. ... This. Table 2. Test programme. Type of four-pointbending test. Test Initial suctionmeasured, s9i:

11 Jul 2007: Two different yield criteria were considered in Ref [16] both of which approximate observed results from tests on standard monolithic specimens. ... section. Using fc in lieu of Neilsen’s use of the compressive test strength (fcu ) the reinforcement

11 Jul 2007: He has conducted many tests to show that, despite being an Upper Bound, his predictions are sufficiently close to the true collapse load that they can be used as the basis ... The values of the moment capacity determined by Collins from material tests

2 Jul 2007: The test shows that the stronger the material was the more tensile force we could apply. => ... The middle is an obvious choice as it is furthest away from the supports.