Against the background of specific questions related to prestressed concrete bridges, theoretical and experimental efforts have been intensified in the recent past. In particular, characteristic load-bearing mechanisms of prestressed continuous beams have been discussed and individual parameters have been considered in isolation. A circumstance common to these experimental investigations is the comparatively high degree of longitudinal reinforcement of the test specimens, which is intended to exclude premature bending failure in favor of the desired shear failure. It may be assumed that an oversized longitudinal reinforcement influences the load-bearing behavior implicitly. Therefore, the following experimental investigations of the Chair of Solid Structures at the Technical University of Munich are presented and discussed below. In addition to varying the degree of longitudinal reinforcement itself, the influence of the degree of prestressing at a low degree of longitudinal reinforcement is also investigated on scaled test specimens. With reference to existing normative regulations for the recalculation of concrete bridges, no adverse effects are found in the estimation of the shear capacity, but additional load-bearing reserves can be identified.
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Against the background of specific questions related to prestressed concrete bridges, theoretical and experimental efforts have been intensified in the recent past. In particular, characteristic load-bearing mechanisms of prestressed continuous beams have been discussed and individual parameters have been considered in isolation. A circumstance common to these experimental investigations is the comparatively high degree of longitudinal reinforcement of the test specimens, which is intended to ex...
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