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SHEAR IN CONCRETE
Some points in shear stress in concrete beams
Shear stress are a major stress that come on a concrete beam section, but students seems to give little importance to this, but actually more complex behaviour is shown by shear stress than flexural stress in a section, below are some points regarding shear stress distribution and simplyfying assumptions to make the life easier.
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Shear in concrete
Shear stress, shear strength, shear stress distribution, shear failure, shear reinforcement, nominal shear stress, allowable shear strength of concrete, maximum shear strength, shear section. Is that enough?, you may never dont come across the shear of concrete this much seriously, but you are going to do, after you read this. Shear in concrete is a tricky thing, rather a confusing thing in which exact prediction and analysis is virtually impossible. All the stress resultant BM, shear, torsion etc cause stress inside the section of concrete. For BM, fx = My/I (flexural stress) image image image image = VQ/Ib (Shear stress) Shear stress distribution is parabolic
having maximum at centre i.e. neutral axis. But flexural stress (normal stress) is having linear variation having zero stress at neutral axis and maximum at top and bottom, evidently it is clear that across the section of beam there is a combination of normal and shear stresses. This give rise to a complex system of principal planes and principal stresses. Some of the facts we can assure is that 1. At neutral axis, there is a state of pure shear (normal stress is zero) 2. At top and bottom there is only axial stress ( = 0) Keeping these complexities in mind we are going to waste our life in analysing the exact stress conditions and
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