Andrea Monserrat López

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | UPC · Civil and Environmental Engineering

Continuous reinforced concrete (RC) beams may develop significant plastic rotations to enable the redistribution of bending moments. These rotations occur at plastic hinges, which are subject to high shear forces. The influence of rotations on the shear strength for statically determined beams without shear reinforcement failing in shear after yiel...

Shear strength of reinforced concrete beams has been extensively studied by many experimental campaigns conducted on simply supported beams. This situation has led to implement empirical design formulations in codes that cannot be representative of other real structures, such as continuous beams. These structures are characterised by the potential...

Statically indeterminate structures such as continuous beams allow redistribution of internal forces. For increasing loads after yielding of the flexural reinforcement, shear forces may increase, making it possible to reach shear failures after the full flexural capacity of the structure is developed. An extensive experimental programme consisting...

The assessment of the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams with and without shear reinforcement is investigated in this paper on the basis of the contribution of the various potential shear-transfer actions. To that aim, a comprehensive experimental programme is presented, aimed at representing realistic conditions in reinforced concrete mem...