Title: Static and Dynamic Response of Reinforced Concrete Slab-Column Connections

Author(s): M.E. Criswell

Publication: Symposium Paper

Volume: 42

Issue:

Appears on pages(s): 721-746

Keywords: columns (supports); concrete slabs; connections; cracking (fracturing); ductility; dynamic loads; flexural strength; loads (forces); reinforced concrete; research; shear strength; static loads; tests

DOI: 10.14359/17307

Date: 1/1/1974

Abstract:
The principal results from two testing programs, one including eight statically-loaded and eleven dynamically-loaded full scale isolated slab-column connections and the other including tests of two one-quarter scale nice panel slab models, are presented along with observations concerning the failure modes and strengths of connection models and slab systems as limited by their response in shear. Difficulties in classifying the failure of slab column connections into a shear or flexural failure mode and in providing adequate ductility in these regions are discussed.