Study Effect the Shear Spacing and Width of Beam on Behavour of Reinforced Concrete Wide Beams

Mustafa Joad; Ali L. Abass

doi:10.24237/djes.2021.14111

Authors

Mustafa Joad
mustafa.almula55@gmail.com
Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Diyala, 32001 Diyala, Iraq
Ali L. Abass Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Diyala, 32001 Diyala, Iraq

Keywords:

Reinforced concrete, Wide beams, beam width stirrups, Shear failure, Spacing

Abstract

This paper presented an experimental study of the behaviour of wide reinforced concrete beams with different shear spacing and beam width. Eight specimens in two groups, the group one contains four specimens with the dimensions of (200x500x1600mm) and shear reinforcement spacing (d/2, 0.65d, 3/4d and 1.0d), the group two contains four specimens with the dimensions of (200x600x1600mm) and shear reinforcement spacing (d/2, 0.55d, 3/4d and 1.0d), Variables studied in this study shear reinforcement spacing and width of wide beam, the increasing of shear reinforcement spacing gives close results in RC wide beam, increased shear reinforcement spacing decreased the ultimate loud by 6.6% and when increasing width of beam the ultimate loud decreased by 9.5%, The ultimate deflection decreased by 16.5% and when increasing width of beam decreased by 7.2 %,The number of flexural cracks was equal in all beams, when increasing width of beam the number of flexural crack increased by 2 cracks, The average spacing between shear cracks decreased by 7%, when increasing width of beam average spacing between shear cracks decreased by 19%.

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