Print Email Facebook Twitter Concrete slabs under a combination of loads in shear Title Concrete slabs under a combination of loads in shear Author Lantsoght, E.O.L. Van der Veen, C. Walraven, J.C. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Structural Engineering Date 2013-05-06 Abstract Previous experimental research at Delft University of Technology indicated an increased shear capacity of slabs under concentrated loads as a function of decreasing distance to the adjacent line support. Expressions have been derived for this increase, including the definition of an appropriate effective width. However, it is unknown if the uniformly distributed loads on solid slab bridges, e.g. due to dead loads, that act over the full width can be combined with the effects of concentrated loads acting only over the associated effective width at the support. To study this problem, additional experiments have been carried out at Delft University of Technology, in which a combination of loads consisting of a concentrated load close to the support and a line load over the full slab width are applied. The experimental results prove that the superposition principle applies to combinations of concentrated loads and distributed loads. Subject slab bridgesshearexperimental researcheffective widthtestsreinforced concretelive loadssuperposition To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8d420e71-98ca-4e04-aad3-ef821ca78e42 Publisher IABSE ISBN 978-3-85748-123-9 Source International IABSE Conference: Assessment, Upgrading and Refurbishment of Infrastructures, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 6-8 May 2013; Authors version Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s) Files PDF 293475.pdf 287.48 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8d420e71-98ca-4e04-aad3-ef821ca78e42/datastream/OBJ/view