Research Article
Shear Behavior of RC Beams Strengthened by External Vertical Prestressing Rebar
Table 5
Results contradistinction between experimental and FEM developed models.
| | Beam ID | Exp. | FEM | Pu,Exp./Pu,FEM | | Pu,Exp (kN) | Failure mode | Pu,FEM (kN) | Failure mode |
| | RC-1 | 255 | Diagonal tension failure | 273 | Diagonal tension failure | 93.41% | | RC-2 | 290 | Diagonal tension failure | 273 | Diagonal tension failure | 106.23% | | EP-P22-S1 | 505.0 | Shear compression failure | 550.3 | Shear compression failure | 91.77% | | EP-P22-S2 | 516.8 | Shear compression failure | 561.1 | Shear compression failure | 92.10% | | EP-P22-S3 | 527.6 | Shear compression failure | 557.5 | Shear compression failure | 94.64% | | EP-P26-S3 | 535.2 | Shear compression failure | 557.3 | Shear compression failure | 96.03% | | EP-P18-S3 | 517.6 | Shear compression failure | 560.1 | Shear compression failure | 92.41% |
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