Designing Concrete Structures for Serviceability and Safety
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ACI SP-133:1992 is a publication that focuses on the importance of designing construction facilities with consideration for their long-term behavior, service load, and ultimate load. The text is a compilation of various papers presented at a national symposium organized by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and covers topics related to crack control, safety provisions, deflection computations, limit state design principles, and seismic performance of frame structures.
The papers included in the publication aim to provide insights to design engineers and contractors on avoiding practices that could compromise the integrity and long-term performance of concrete structural elements and systems. The emphasis is on complying with the requirements of ACI codes and reports, as well as incorporating state-of-the-art developments in the field of concrete structural design.
The publication covers a wide range of topics, including macro-cracking and crack control, safety provisions in design codes, integrating safety and serviceability in design, practical considerations in computing deflection, serviceability design in the Australian code, allowable deflections, design and serviceability of reinforced concrete floor systems, reliability assessment and reliability-based design, early-age shear-friction behavior of high-strength concrete, sensitivity analysis of damaged concrete bridge girders, experience with pre- and post-cracking deflections of pretensioned members, design for safety, serviceability, and damage tolerability, evaluation and analysis of hammerhead-type pier caps, reflections on limit state design, a numerical model of flat-plate to column connection behavior, and seismic performance of code-designed reinforced concrete frame structures.
| Descriptors | Durability |
| Language(s) | English |
| File Size | 11.5 MB |
