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The International Concrete Abstracts Portal is an ACI led collaboration with leading technical organizations from within the international concrete industry and offers the most comprehensive collection of published concrete abstracts.
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Document:
CI4707NexInsights
Date:
July 1, 2025
Publication:
Concrete International
Volume:
47
Issue:
7
Abstract:
A new certification program co-sponsored by NEx: An ACI Center of Excellence for Nonmetallic Building Materials is now available through ACI Certification. The program, titled “GFRP Reinforcing Bar Inspector” is designed to qualify individuals responsible for inspecting the installation of glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforcing bars in concrete construction. This program reinforces NEx’s mission to advance the safe and effective use of nonmetallic materials.
CI4705ConcreteQA
May 1, 2025
5
This month’s Q&A discusses minimum requirements for performing, implementing, and documenting service life predictions on new construction projects per ACI CODE-365-24. It outlines the service life prediction process and provides information on the role and responsibilities of a service life engineer.
CI4705NexInsights
NEx: An ACI Center of Excellence for Nonmetallic Building Materials held a full-day technical workshop on “Design of GFRP-Reinforced Slabs-on-Ground and Paving” at the ACI Concrete Convention in Toronto, ON, Canada, on March 31, 2025. In addition, NEx hosted an exclusive lunch for members, speakers, and industry leaders to connect.
SP365_01
March 1, 2025
Author(s):
Graeme J. Milligan, Maria Anna Polak and Cory Zurell
Symposium Papers
365
Due to the low lateral stiffness of slabs supported on columns alone reinforced concrete flat plates are typically combined with other structural elements, such as shearwalls. In these structures, the slab-column connections are designed to carry gravity loads only, and the shearwalls, which also carry gravity loads, are required to resist the lateral forces. Therefore, the slab-wall connections (SWCs) are essential for the adequate performance of both the gravity and lateral force resisting systems. However, the majority of punching shear research and design provisions have been focused on slab-column connections, even though punching failures around slab-wall connections have been observed experimentally. Empirical testing of slab-wall connections is difficult due to the required specimen size. This paper investigates the punching shear behaviour of interior slab-wall connections subjected to concentric vertical loading, and combined concentric vertical loading and uniaxial unbalanced moment using a plasticity-based nonlinear finite element model (FEM) in Abaqus. The FEM, developed to study the impact of column aspect ratio on punching shear, was calibrated considering seven isolated slab-column specimens. The analysis of isolated slab-wall connections demonstrates that punching failures can occur before one-way shear failures, although the connection capacity is much higher than the expected loads in most structures. Punching shear design methods for interior slab-wall connections subjected to gravity load only, developed from finite element analysis results, are developed and presented in the paper.
DOI:
10.14359/51746680
SP365_02
Luca Facconi, Ali Amin, Fausto Minelli and Giovanni Plizzari
The limited availability of research studies related to the behavior of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete (SFRC) members subjected to torsion has hindered the development of clear and reliable design guidelines. Recent efforts by various researchers have been devoted to the development of analytical models for predicting the torsional response of SFRC members, supported by experimental results which have highlighted the efficiency of steel fibers in improving the torsional resistance and stiffness. For beams subjected to moderate or low levels of torsion, steel fibers, even at moderate dosages, have demonstrated the potential to replace minimum conventional torsion reinforcement, thus providing significant advantages for practical applications. This paper presents a discussion of the recent developments in research related to testing SFRC members under pure torsion. A comprehensive database of experimental test data is collated to provide a state-of-the-art in this respect. Additionally, the manuscript delves into analytical prediction models for the torsional capacity by some European code-oriented models, recently introduced by the Eurocode 2 as well as by the Authors of this paper. The results of model predictions are compared with available experimental data to assess the effectiveness and reliability of the models.
10.14359/51746681
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