Synopsis: The structural design for the East Addition to the St. Cloud Hospital facility in central Minnesota incorporated punching shear and cracked section design criteria that are not currently specified in ACI 318-05. The complexity of the column layout and shallow floor-to-floor spacing were the primary reasons for choosing a twoway 12 in. (300 mm) reinforced concrete flat slab for the 450...

In this study accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process up to 8 Cycles (equivalent strain of 6.4) at ambient temperature was used in order to improve the mechanical properties of Commercial purity titanium (CP-Ti).Several experiment has been done and Mechanical properties of specimen has been discussed. For investigating optical microscope punching and hardness test were utilized. This is the fir...

In this study accumulative roll bonding (ARB) process up to 8 Cycles (equivalent strain of 6.4) at ambient temperature was used in order to improve the mechanical properties of Commercial purity titanium (CP-Ti).Several experiment has been done and Mechanical properties of specimen has been discussed. For investigating optical microscope punching and hardness test were utilized. This is the fir...

Data collected from shake table tests of two, approximately one-third scale, two story flat plate frames utilizing shear reinforcement, as well as data from prior tests, were evaluated to assess the inter-story drift ratios when punching failures occur for reinforced concrete and post-tensioned slab-column connections with and without shear reinforcement. The drift ratios at punching for the sh...

Nearly no load bearing behaviour of reinforced concrete members allows such varied interpretations and complex discussions as the shear behaviour. Especially the three-dimensional problem of the punching shear failure of reinforced concrete members is internationally discussed. Nevertheless up to now, there is no unified design approach or even an overall accepted design model. Especially for l...

The punching and post-punching shear behaviours of reinforced concrete (RC) flat plate structures are often studied by using a representative slab–column connection isolated from the parent structure. In this study, set numerical modelling techniques is established to create competent three-dimensional non-linear model simulate RC connections without reinforcement, through use which failure fea...