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

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Figure 2.23 Pretension<strong>in</strong>g bed at Glasgow (Arthur & Ganguli, 1965)Figure 2.24 Mechanical gage po<strong>in</strong>ts on I-beam specimen(after Arthur & Ganguli, 1965)After transfer of prestress, half of the beam end regions were observed to crack.This proportion was similar for both the fixed ends (9 of 19) <strong>and</strong> the stress<strong>in</strong>g ends(9 of 18, with one end region not reported). Cracks were 15 <strong>in</strong>. long on average, with twothat were much longer, “virtually [splitt<strong>in</strong>g] the beam <strong>in</strong> two <strong>and</strong> [render<strong>in</strong>g] it of nopractical use” (p. 92).37

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