Experimental behaviour of concrete floor slabs at large displacements

Engineering Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1231-1247

  Foster, S J ^a   Bailey, C G ^b   Burgess, Ian W ^a   Plank, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite construction; Concrete; Experiments; Fire; Large displacements; Slabs; Tensile membrane action

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLOORS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

DISPLACEMENTS; LOAD CAPACITY; SMALL-SCALE TESTS;

CONCRETE SLABS;

DISPLACEMENT; FLOOR; GEOSYNTHETICS; REINFORCEMENT; SLAB;

EID: 4544307364     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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