Providing an opening in beam makes cracks surrounded the opening due to stress concentration. In this study an experimental works conducted to study the behavior of reinforced HSC T-shaped beams with flange opening in bending zone. This paper shows the behavior of RC beam with opening un-strengthened by additional reinforcement. In this experimental study three beams were casted, one rectangular beam and one T-beam without opening as a reference beam and the remaining beam was provided with one rectangular flange opening 180×360 mm at middle section. These beams were tested under one-point loading. The effect of flange opening was studied in terms of ultimate failure load, maximum deflection and failure mode. From the test results, it could be concluded that the ultimate load carrying capacity of the RC T-shaped beam with flange opening at flexural zone was reduced by about 2.30%. As well, the cracking load was reduced by about 2.94%.
Although piles are elements designed primarily to support vertical loads, They are subjected to horizontal loads by serval sources such as earthquake, wind, impact loads and lateral earth pressure. Large number of studies have been carried out to investigate the effect of different parameters on the behavior of piles. These parameters are summarized as i) effect of pile diameter, ii) angle of the pile with the vertical, iii) piles slenderness ratio and soil type. In the present study an experimental program was carried out to identify the deflection of vertical and inclined piles subjected to a lateral force in cohesive soil. The experimental program comprised pile lateral load tests performed on model of single pile driven in cohesive soil. Using the experimental model results, relations were utilized to estimate the lateral deflection of piles.
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