Experimental Investigation of Tension Stiffening in RC Ties

Rigid body spring network modeling of the tension stiffening of FRP-strengthened RC members

Tension stiffening behavior of post-cracking concrete is an important phenomenon which has been extensively studied for reinforced concrete structures. Although externally bonded fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are widely used for strengthening existing RC structures, it remains unclear to what extent the tension stiffening of post-cracking concrete is quantitatively influenced by the...

The Tension-Stiffening Contribution of NSM CFRP to the Behavior of Strengthened RC Beams

Tension stiffening is a characteristic behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams which is directly affected by the bond-slip property of steel bar and concrete interfaces. A beam strengthened with a near-surface mounted (NSM) technique would be even more affected by tension stiffening, as the NSM reinforcement also possess a bond-slip property. Yet assessing how much the tension stiffening of ...

Stiffening of Compressor Shells by Tension Rings

investigation of (meta)discourse markers in elt coursebooks

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...

Effect of Reinforcement Type on the Tension Stiffening Model of Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC)

Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is a developing concrete and today is increasing to interest using it in structures due to its advantages such as high-compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, highly durability and low-permeability. Therefore, it is necessary to provide models for prediction of nonlinear behavior of this material. This study is aimed to investigate the tension-stiffen...