Shear Strength of Full-Scale Prestressed Lightweight Concrete Girders with Composite Decks

Although design codes have accepted lightweight concrete as a suitable structural material for nearly 50 years, there is still a good deal of uncertainty as to how to calculate the strength of this material when designing for shear in beams.  Design codes tend to penalize lightweight concrete due to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kassner, Bernard Leonard
Other Authors: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49543