Yuguang Yang - Structural Synergy. Structural Engineering

Delft University of Technology

Structural and Building Engineering 2009-2013 +31152782277 yuguang.yang@ tudelft.nl

Biography

Yuguang Yang, PhD candidate from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, his research interests include the shear capacity of concrete structures, and structural performance of high performance concrete. He got his bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Following that, he went to Delft University of Technology for his Master study and continued as a PhD there.

Research

For reinforced concrete structures without shear reinforcement, such as concrete slab bridges and tunnel, shear failure is a brittle failure mode, thus is considered to be critical for those structures. With this type of failure mode, usually no warning can be observed before catastrophic collapse.

Many of the Dutch concrete bridges was built in the sixties and seventies of the last century. The traffic load and intensity has increased significantly since then. While design rules with respect to shear has also changed rapidly. With the new Eurocode, many of the bridges cannot fulfill the requirement anymore. However, the design codes specified in Eurocode was derived for new structures. In the case of existing structures, more accurate model is needed. This research is aimed at deriving a more accurate evaluation method on the shear capacity of reinforced concrete structures based on experimental results.

Promotor

Prof.dr.ir. J. Walraven [email protected]

Figure 1. Force distribution of a free body element of a beam failed in shear.

Force distribution of a free body element of a beam failed in shear.

Test setup in Stevin Lab 2. The dimension of tested specimen is 8000 x 500 x 300 mm.

Figure 1. Force distribution of a free body element of a beam failed in shear.

Force distribution of a free body element of a beam failed in shear.

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In document Structural Synergy. Structural Engineering (Page 112-117)