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

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(a) Actual spall<strong>in</strong>g stress variation(l<strong>in</strong>early decreas<strong>in</strong>g stresses)(b) Uniform stress variationassumed for designFigure 2.31 Actual spall<strong>in</strong>g stress variation & uniform stress variationassumed for design2.4.2.2 Gergely, Sozen & Siess, 1963Experience measur<strong>in</strong>g surface stra<strong>in</strong>s (discussed <strong>in</strong> Section 2.4.1.4) led Gergely,Sozen <strong>and</strong> Siess to study the effects of transverse re<strong>in</strong>forcement <strong>in</strong> crack control. A totalof 25 post-tensioned beams were <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> their study, but of these, the six rectangular<strong>and</strong> seven I-beams that were <strong>in</strong>strumented with stra<strong>in</strong> gages on transverse bars are mostrelevant to the present study. Transverse re<strong>in</strong>forc<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> these specimens was relativelylight, consist<strong>in</strong>g of one or two stirrups. The stirrups were fabricated of either 7-gage wire48

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