Issue 57

M. S ł owik, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 57 (2021) 321-330; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.57.23

The beams had a different total length and span (distance between the supports) during the test. The span for two slender beams OI-1 and OI-2 was the same l eff = 1.8 m whereas the span in short beams differed and it was l eff = 1.0 m in the beam PI-2 and l eff = 0.8 m in the beam PI-1. The beams were simply supported during the test. The external force was applied from the testing machine in the middle of the span when testing three beams OI-1, PI-2, PI-1 and in case of the beam OI-2 the applied force was symmetrically distributed into two forces, as it is presented in Fig. 2. A different scheme of load applying in the beam OI2 (two forces) compering to a load arrangement in rest of beams (one force) was used in order to obtain a different shear span a (distance between the applied force and the support) in slender beams. Such arrangement of loading caused that the shear span during the test was also a changing parameter and the beams were characterized by a different shear span-to-depth ratio a/d (see Tab. 1).

Figure 2: Static scheme of tested beams.

Shear span-to-depth ratio, a/d [-]

Span, l eff [m]

Shear span, a [m]

Beam OI-1 OI-2 PI-2 PI-1

1.8 1.8 1.0 0.8

0.90 0.75 0.50 0.40

4.1 3.4 2.3 1.8

Table 1: Tested members. The beams were made by the same constructional concrete. The dolomite aggregate of the maximum size 16 mm was used to produce the concrete mixture. Concrete properties were tested on standardized specimens and at standard conditions. The compressive strength of concrete and the modulus of elasticity were measured on cylindrical specimens  150/300 mm whereas the tensile strength of concrete was tested using the splitting test on cubic specimens 150/150/150 mm. The obtained results are presented in Tab. 2. The uniaxial tensile strength of concrete was calculated on the basis of the splitting tensile strength as it is recommended in Eurocode 2 [10]: f ct = 0.9 f ct,sp = 3.15 MPa.

Property

Number of specimens, [-]

Mean value, [MPa]

Standard deviation, [MPa]

Coefficient of variation, [%]

Compressive strength f c

27 32 19

35

5.6 0.4

16 11

Tensile splitting strength f ct,sp Modulus of elasticity E c

3.5

41400

93650

9

Table 2: Concrete properties.

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