SHEAR CARRYING CAPACITY OF SEGMENTAL CONCRETE BEAMS WITH DRAPED EXTERNAL TENDONS

This study presents an investigation of the shear be havior of segmental concrete beams with draped external tendons. Deviator force and transfer mechanism of prestressing force from an anchorage that affect the shear failure mechanism have been examined base d on the results of experimental procedure and FEM with different location of deviator and inclined angle of draped tendons. The modified model proposed by authors has been extended for segmental concrete beam s with draped external tendons with considering the effect of deviator force and transfer mechanism of prestressing force from the anchorage. The results from the extended modified model for draped external tendons had a good agreement with experimental results.