Print Email Facebook Twitter The Arched Strut Title The Arched Strut: a Tool for Modelling Column-Slab Connections Author Alexander, S (COWI) Lantsoght, E.O.L. (TU Delft Concrete Structures; Universidad San Francisco de Quito) Date 2018 Abstract The arched strut is an addition to the strut-and-tie (STM) tool kit. It models the combination of disturbed behavior in one direction with slender behavior in the perpendicular direction. Common applications for the arched strut are in the design of connections between a reinforced concrete slab and its supporting columns or punching of bridge decks.The arched strut can be applied to any combination of shear and moment at a column-slab connection. The designer is given clear guidance on anchorage requirements for the flexural reinforcement and the expected ductility of the connection. The method does not model a particular failure criterion; rather, it defines an acceptable load path that meets design objectives.The paper outlines the basis for the arched strut and presents examples illustrating its use in design. Subject slab-columnconnectionsslabsPunching shearmoment transferstrut-and-tie modelling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:06296fab-4160-42cc-bd18-631c95fe580b Embargo date 2018-09-21 ISBN 978-385748161-1 Source Proceedings of the 40th IABSE Symposium: 19-21 September 2018, Nantes, France Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2018 S Alexander, E.O.L. Lantsoght Files PDF S_Alexander_Arched_Strut_ ... nal_2_.pdf 895.88 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:06296fab-4160-42cc-bd18-631c95fe580b/datastream/OBJ/view