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5.3 RECOMMENDED FUTURE RESEARCHCont<strong>in</strong>ued development <strong>and</strong> test<strong>in</strong>g of new transverse-re<strong>in</strong>forcement details forU-beams <strong>and</strong> box beams will be the next steps for Project 5831. Limited study of burst<strong>in</strong>g<strong>and</strong> spall<strong>in</strong>g stresses <strong>in</strong> beams with debonded str<strong>and</strong>s has also begun under the auspicesof the project; however, it seems that the subject may be deserv<strong>in</strong>g of a more <strong>in</strong>tensivetreatment. One reason often given (PCI, 1985; Itani & Galbraith, 1986; Tadros et al.,2007) for why burst<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> spall<strong>in</strong>g stresses are not necessary to consider for beams <strong>in</strong>service is the beneficial clamp<strong>in</strong>g effect of the beam reaction <strong>in</strong> the region close to thesupport. For beams with debonded str<strong>and</strong>s, a significant portion of the prestress<strong>in</strong>g forcemay be transferred <strong>in</strong> locations far from the end support.Work with burst<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> spall<strong>in</strong>g database has made it clear that members ofdifferent cross sections can behave differently at transfer. Increas<strong>in</strong>g the database size byconduct<strong>in</strong>g more tests on pretensioned beams with extensively-<strong>in</strong>strumented end regionswould be <strong>in</strong>valuable to the underst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g of burst<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> spall<strong>in</strong>g behavior. As noted <strong>in</strong>the previous section, particularly lack<strong>in</strong>g are tests of pretensioned beams with vary<strong>in</strong>glevels of burst<strong>in</strong>g re<strong>in</strong>forcement. As bulb tees members have proved particularlyvulnerable to crack<strong>in</strong>g problems, their use <strong>in</strong> such a study would be natural.Cont<strong>in</strong>ued study of lateral burst<strong>in</strong>g stresses will also be <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g. As notedpreviously, requirements for bottom-flange lateral re<strong>in</strong>forcement <strong>in</strong> wide pretensionedconcrete members were recently added to AASHTO LRFD (2008). Should U-beams <strong>and</strong>other members with much less than the LRFD-required lateral re<strong>in</strong>forcement cont<strong>in</strong>ue toshow serviceable lateral burst<strong>in</strong>g zones, there may be cause to readdress this provision.An extreme case for lateral burst<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>in</strong> which the lateral-bar stress <strong>in</strong> a beam withdebonded str<strong>and</strong>s would be measured between widely-spaced, bonded str<strong>and</strong> groups,would be valuable to <strong>in</strong>vestigate for the purposes of code calibration.191

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