09-12-2010, 03:21 PM
Ultimate limit-state design of concrete structures - a new approach - M.Kotsovos,M.Pavlovic (1999)
ISBN: 0 7277 2665 X
The aim of the present book, is to introduce designers to the ‘compressive-force path’ method. Such an introduction not only includes the description of its underlying theoretical concepts and their application in practice but, also, presents the causes which led to the need for a new design methodology for the implementation of the limit-state philosophy into practical structural concrete design together with evidence — both experimental and analytical — supporting its validity. The book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 presents characteristic cases of structural concrete members, mostly designed in compliance with current code provisions, for which the behavior predicted by the methods implemented in such code provisions deviates excessively from that established by experiment. In Chapter 2, the results obtained from an investigation of the fundamental causes which led to the excessive deviations discussed in the preceding chapter are described. These results from Chapter 2 are summarized in Chapter 3 so as to then form the theoretical basis of the proposed design methodology. The latter is fully described in Chapter 4,
together with examples of its application in practical structural concrete design.
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