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Bursting and Spalling in Pretensioned U-Beams - Ferguson ...

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4.4.1 Recommended Texas U-Beam Re<strong>in</strong>forc<strong>in</strong>g Details for Test<strong>in</strong>gOne of the tasks <strong>in</strong> TxDOT Research Project 5831 was to recommend better endregionre<strong>in</strong>forcement details <strong>and</strong> to test these new details, as discussed <strong>in</strong> Section 1.1. Asthe project is only partly complete (Year 2 of 5), the details here recommended are of aprelim<strong>in</strong>ary nature <strong>and</strong> may undergo changes as test<strong>in</strong>g cont<strong>in</strong>ues <strong>in</strong> the com<strong>in</strong>g months.The high transverse-bar stresses measured <strong>in</strong> both the burst<strong>in</strong>g (Beam 2) <strong>and</strong>spall<strong>in</strong>g zones (<strong>Beams</strong> 1 <strong>and</strong> 2), coupled with the <strong>in</strong>adequate web re<strong>in</strong>forcementcompared to other DOT st<strong>and</strong>ards, lead to the recommendation to provide additionaltransverse re<strong>in</strong>forcement <strong>in</strong> the U-beam st<strong>and</strong>ard design. The addition of thisre<strong>in</strong>forcement would help to control crack<strong>in</strong>g at transfer of prestress, <strong>and</strong> could improveshear performance.An end-region detail presently under consideration is shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 4.27. Thetwo ma<strong>in</strong> components of this detail are additional transverse re<strong>in</strong>forcement, bundled withthe exist<strong>in</strong>g steel <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>stalled at the <strong>in</strong>terior face of the web; <strong>and</strong> thickened webs <strong>in</strong> theend region. While the web would be thickened primarily for shear purposes, theadditional concrete could decrease average transverse-bar stresses slightly by carry<strong>in</strong>g aportion of the transverse stress between cracks.182

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