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

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As splitt<strong>in</strong>g stress is bond-related, it affects only pretensioned members. <strong>Burst<strong>in</strong>g</strong>stress is a member-level phenomenon related to load spread<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>and</strong> occurs <strong>in</strong> bothpretensioned <strong>and</strong> post-tensioned members. S<strong>in</strong>ce “burst<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> splitt<strong>in</strong>g occur <strong>in</strong> thesame region… their effects must be superimposed” for design (Uijl, 1983, p. 99). In thisspirit, burst<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> splitt<strong>in</strong>g stresses are considered <strong>in</strong> a superimposed sense for thepurposes of this thesis. The term “burst<strong>in</strong>g stress” is used for tensile stresses result<strong>in</strong>gboth from bond effects <strong>and</strong> load spread<strong>in</strong>g, unless otherwise noted.<strong>Spall<strong>in</strong>g</strong> stresses occur away from the prestress<strong>in</strong>g-force l<strong>in</strong>e of action, along themember end. Such forces can be caused by deformation compatibility, prestresseccentricity or division of the prestress <strong>in</strong>to multiple str<strong>and</strong> groups. Cracks due to spall<strong>in</strong>gstresses are horizontal or diagonal (oriented <strong>in</strong> the opposite direction of shear cracks).In Figures 2.4 through 2.6, these dist<strong>in</strong>ctions between end-region stresses areillustrated. Figure 2.4 differentiates stresses based on their location for a beam withmultiple anchorages (or str<strong>and</strong> groups); Figure 2.5 gives examples of burst<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong>spall<strong>in</strong>g stress distributions, consider<strong>in</strong>g two sections of a post-tensioned beam; <strong>and</strong>Figure 2.6 shows their effect through exaggerated deformations.Compar<strong>in</strong>g research studies <strong>in</strong>vestigat<strong>in</strong>g end-region effects <strong>in</strong> prestressed beamsthrough the 1980s <strong>and</strong> recent U.S. codes of practice, it can be observed that <strong>in</strong>consistentterm<strong>in</strong>ology is used to describe stresses <strong>in</strong> the end region. This thesis largely adopts theterm<strong>in</strong>ology from the earlier research studies, but the American Association of StateHighway <strong>and</strong> Transportation Officials Load <strong>and</strong> Resistance Factor Design Bridge DesignSpecifications (AASHTO LRFD) has neglected the “burst<strong>in</strong>g” <strong>and</strong> “spall<strong>in</strong>g” stressdesignation <strong>in</strong> favor of referr<strong>in</strong>g to transverse tensile stresses <strong>in</strong> general, us<strong>in</strong>g the term“burst<strong>in</strong>g” first (1994 to 2007), then “splitt<strong>in</strong>g” (s<strong>in</strong>ce 2008).11

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