Title:
Assessment of Performance of Reinforced Concrete Strips by In-Place Load Testing
Author(s):
Antonio De Luca, Hany Jawaheri Zadeh, and Antonio Nanni
Publication:
Structural Journal
Volume:
110
Issue:
5
Appears on pages(s):
813-822
Keywords:
acceptance criteria; cyclic load test; load testing; monotonic load test; one-way slab; reinforced concrete; structural assessment.
DOI:
10.14359/51685834
Date:
9/1/2013
Abstract:
A three-story apartment building on the University of Miami campus, built in 1947 and scheduled for demolition in the spring of 2011, was used as a research test bed. Two identical strips of the one-way reinforced concrete (RC) slab of the first floor of the building were saw cut and load-tested according to the ACI 437-12 load test protocol. After conducting the load test, the slab strips were loaded to failure. This allowed for observations on the margin of safety with respect to failure, a determination that is not generally possible in a proof load test. The analysis of the results provides experimental evidence on the validity of the load test practice for the assessment of structural members.