Shear Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Inverted-T Deep Beam

Contrary to top-loaded deep beams, Inverted-T (IT) beams are loaded on ledges at the beam’s bottom chord. The presence of load near creates a tension field in web loading points. An experimental investigation was carried out which 8 specimens reinforced concrete IT were tested and effect following variables studied: changing hanger diameter, arrangement terms spacing distribution distance, reinforcement ratio, vertical horizontal shear spacing. In addition, all had long extending end beam. It concluded that diameter have an insignificant beam capacity. While change arrangement, reinforcement, ledge length has significant maximum minimum ratio passing through plate will be studied publication. A finite element model (FEM) presented predict behavior beams. simulation using ABAQUS 2017 software program. results numerical showed good agreement with Analysis design codes checked against data, where computed capacities compared those obtained from test results. comparison remarkable difference between predictions Computation significantly underestimated Doi: 10.28991/CEJ-2023-09-05-04 Full Text: PDF