An analytical method for determining the tensile membrane action of RC slab panels

Yong Wang, Gongchen Wang, Zhaohui Huang*, Yuner Huang, Yaqiang Jiang, Yajun Zhang, Cong Zhang, Yixiang Bu, Wei Song

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Abstract

This paper presents a newly developed method for determining the influence of tensile membrane action on the ultimate loading capacity of a two-way RC concrete slab. In this method, more realistic membrane action and two failure criteria of a slab panel are established. The developed method has been validated against the test results and good agreement is achieved. Compared to the tensile membrane action region obtained from the FEM (Vulcan), the assumptions about the focus of the ellipse equation proposed within the present method are reasonable and accurate. The present method can be used for predicting the ultimate loads and failure modes of the two-way simply supported RC slabs at large deflections. The research indicates that the in-plane shear force has considerable effect on the prediction of ultimate loads of the slabs and neglecting the in-plane shear force results the overestimated the concrete corner strains.
Original languageEnglish
Article number112895
JournalEngineering Structures
Volume245
Early online date9 Aug 2021
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 9 Aug 2021

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • two-way supported slabs
  • tensile membrane action
  • Failure criterion
  • in-plane shear force
  • failure mode

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