Dowel Behavior of Rebars in Small Concrete Block for Sliding Slab Track on Railway Bridges

Table 1

Summary of design specifications and previous models for dowel behavior of rebar.

Model	Equations
Soroushian et al. [5]
	,
	where , , , and
	Randl [11]	(i) Detailed model
, where
(ii) Simple model
, where is compressive strength of concrete cube
MC10 [12]
	, where for C20∼C50 concrete is 1∼2 times the dowel rebar diameter