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

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mechanical gage (2 <strong>in</strong>. gage length) <strong>and</strong> closely spaced gage po<strong>in</strong>ts. These specimens(one shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 2.17) represented anchorage zones of post-tensioned concretemembers. As the stra<strong>in</strong>s measured were located near the axis of prestress, they should beclassified as burst<strong>in</strong>g stra<strong>in</strong>s.While the applicability of their study to the present work is <strong>in</strong>direct at best, theirstudy is mentioned for the very high burst<strong>in</strong>g stresses <strong>and</strong> forces reported by theresearchers. Zieliński <strong>and</strong> Rowe reported burst<strong>in</strong>g forces of 20 to 35% of the appliedprestress<strong>in</strong>g force, 50 to 100% higher than those predicted by the available theories.“Ma<strong>in</strong>ly because they <strong>in</strong>dicate tensile stresses far <strong>in</strong> excess of the theoretical twodimensionalvalues,” noted Yettram <strong>and</strong> Robb<strong>in</strong>s (1969), the results of this experimentalstudy were “widely accepted by designers” (p. 104).Figure 2.17 Concrete prism with extensive surface gag<strong>in</strong>g (Zieliński & Rowe, 1960)28

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