Abstract: A minimum mesh reinforcement, called the shrinkage and temperature reinforcement, has been required by ACI design code for 92  years to attain ductility with no formation of large localized cracks. The required steel ratio, ...

Abstract: The size effect on the strength of reinforced concrete (RC) beams flexurally strengthened by surface bonded sheets of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) is studied. As the failure is neither ductile nor brittle, but quasibrittle, ...

Abstract: A nonlinear diffusion model for the drying of concrete, previously developed at Northwestern University and embedded in some design codes, was improved and calibrated on the basis of recent more extensive experimental data ...

Abstract: A nonlinear diffusion model for the drying of concrete, previously developed at Northwestern University and embedded in some design codes, was improved and calibrated on the basis of recent more extensive experimental data ...

Abstract: In shear failure, reinforced concrete (RC) beams always develop, in a stable manner, a finite length crack before the maximum load is reached. Thus, the crack tip location cannot sample a large volume of material with ...