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I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e o n
Structural and Civil Engineering
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hear failure occurs suddenly in beams without properly designed shear reinforcement. A set-up of swimmer bars system takes
the shape of plane crack interceptors and is employed to counteract the potential diagonal tension failure. Each counteract
plane crack interceptor is formed by swimmer bars will generate a plane intercepting approximately and perpendicularly the
inclined plane of the diagonal tension failure. A reference to testing programs of beams subjected to shear was used. The results
obtained from testing has proved that the efficiency of using swimmer bars system in beams has increased their shear capacity
to more than 250% and has decreased their deflection by increasing the stiffness of the beams in the vicinity of the concentrated
loads, moreover, the nature of the shear failure becomes ductile instead of brittle and obviates sudden failure. The ultimate
strength of shear is limited by the compression shear failure, which was never measured for the case of shear. The gain in ductility
can reach levels matching those in flexural behaviour.
najmi@ju.edu.joDesign of shear reinforcement of beams: new
approach
Abdulqader S Najmi
The University of Jordan, Jordan
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