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Abstract
Cantilevers having shear span to depth ratio less than or equal to one are
termed as brackets, corbels, or short cantilevers. Since there is a growing
interest ill building construction to use precast concrete elements, short
cantilevers became very popular. Short cantilevers may transmit axial loads,
moments , shear and torsion, (either singly or in combination) , resulting from
dead and live loads, earthquake and wind loads, handling and erection stresses
, shrinkage and creep of concrete and certain other loads resulting from
construction and erection procedures.
Little information is available in the literature on the behavior or reinforced
concrete corbels under the effect of eccentric loading.
In this research an experimental, and theoretical investigation was performed
to study the general deformation behavior of doubly symmetrically loaded
reinforced concrete corbels. Four parameters were varied in the study namely,compressive concrete strength , breadth of corbels, height at corbel end, and
presence of vertical stirrups.
A theoretical model using finite element method is presented for predicting
the general deformational behavior , cracking and failure loads. Comparison
was made between experimental test results and those obtained theoretically.
Finally the results of experimental ,and theoretical studies were combined
with available information to formulate some recommendations on how to
design reinforced concrete corbels.
Key words : Reinforced concrete , Concrete strength, Short cantilevers,
Corbels, Stirrups