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

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near this junction, <strong>and</strong> the maximum transverse stra<strong>in</strong>s developed just above the bottomflange. Referr<strong>in</strong>g to this specimen, Hawk<strong>in</strong>s (1966) wrote:For I-sections with the applied load close to the junction of the web <strong>and</strong> flange,crack<strong>in</strong>g has also been observed to orig<strong>in</strong>ate at this junction, several <strong>in</strong>chesbeyond the end of the member. This type of crack<strong>in</strong>g led to the failure of [one]I-section… These results <strong>in</strong>dicate that for an I-section there can be a zone at thejunction of the web <strong>and</strong> flange for which the pr<strong>in</strong>cipal tensile stresses are higherthan those <strong>in</strong> either the burst<strong>in</strong>g or spall<strong>in</strong>g zones (p. 200).crack<strong>in</strong>itiationsiteFigure 2.19 Specimen with failure near flange/web junction (Zieliński & Rowe, 1962)Though Hawk<strong>in</strong>s referred to this crack<strong>in</strong>g as occurr<strong>in</strong>g neither <strong>in</strong> the burst<strong>in</strong>g orspall<strong>in</strong>g zones, the def<strong>in</strong>ition of “burst<strong>in</strong>g” used <strong>in</strong> this thesis (near the l<strong>in</strong>e of prestressrather than necessarily along it) allows the term to be used. S<strong>in</strong>ce the Zieliński <strong>and</strong> Rowestudy, failure <strong>in</strong> other post-tensioned beams due to burst<strong>in</strong>g has been observed (Stone &Breen, 1984; S<strong>and</strong>ers, 1990). However, such behavior is tied to the performance of31

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