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    Behavior and strength of hidden Rc beams embedded in slabs
    (ELSEVIER, 2020) Ozbek, Eray; Aykac, Bengi; Bocek, Meryem; Yilmaz, Mahmut Cem; Mohammed, A. B. Khadeeja; Er, Sule Bakirci; Aykac, Sabahattin
    Reinforced concrete (RC) beams protrude from the ceiling, unless there is an infill wall beneath. Sometimes the construction of these beams is avoided due to aesthetic concerns, and instead a reinforcement arrangement with an equivalent bending moment capacity in the slab is made; this is named as a hidden beam. However, since such a design based only on strength can change the behavior to a great extent, the drawbacks of hidden beams were experimentally investigated. A total of fourteen half-scale specimens, including conventional T-beams and slabs with identical flexural capacities (hidden beams), were tested to failure under four-point loading. Reinforcement ratio and slab thickness were adopted as test parameters. The results indicated that hidden beams were able to achieve reference strengths after excessive (up to eight times larger) deformations, or they occasionally could never achieve these capacities. Experimental data were also compared with analytical deflection approaches.
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    Behavior of Postfabricated RC Beams under Monotonic Transverse Loading
    (Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers, 2019) Aykac, Sabahattin; Jamal, Rohullah; Ozbek, Eray; Kalkan, Ilker; Aykac, Bengi
    Postfabricated beams, that is, newly constructed beams in an existing structural system, provide an effective remedial solution to the serviceability and strength problems in an existing floor system and the discontinuities and irregularities in the seismic-force-resisting system of a structure, mostly caused by design and construction errors or intended omissions of certain members. The purpose of this study is to develop new techniques for postfabrication of these beams and connecting the postfabricated beams to the existing columns and slab. In this respect, an experimental study was planned and a total of 16half-scale specimens, including 3 monolithic (slab, columns, and beams cast monolithically) specimens and 13 specimens with postfabricated beams, were tested under monotonic vertical loads. The longitudinal reinforcement ratio of the postfabricated beam and the connection techniques of the postfabricated beam to the surrounding columns and slab constituted the test parameters. The tests indicated that the specimens with postfabricated beams were able to reach the strength and behavior of the monolithic specimens.
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    Discussion on "Seismic capacity of masonry infilled RC frame strengthening with expanded metal ferrocement" by A. Leeanansaksiri, P. Panyakapo, A. Ruangrassamee [Eng. Struct. 159 (2018) 110-127]
    (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2018) Aykac, Sabahattin; Ozbek, Eray; Kalkan, Ilker; Aykac, Bengi
    A discussion on the paper by Leeanansaksiri et al. (2018) is presented. In the paper, strengthening of the masonry infill walls using ferrocement reinforced with standard expanded steel plates (EMS) was investigated experimentally. A bare frame without infill wall, a frame with a plain (unstrengthened) infill wall and a frame with a strengthened infill wall were tested under reversed cyclic lateral loading. The type of EMS to be used for strengthening was decided based on compressive strength tests on plain (unstrengthened) and strengthened masonry prisms and monotonic diagonal loading tests on wall panels. The results of the prism and panel tests were also used to determine the parameters of the analytical hysteric models, which closely estimated the experimental results of the frame tests. While the paper reached important conclusions related to the proposed strengthening technique, the authors of this discussion felt obliged to present their significant findings on the issues, raised in the paper for further research to increase the efficiency of the proposed technique. Furthermore, this discussion summarizes the findings of the authors on the strategies to investigate the efficiency of an infill wall strengthening technique.
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    Strengthening of RC T-beams with perforated steel plates
    (Ice Publishing, 2013) Aykac, Sabahattin; Kalkan, Ilker; Aykac, Bengi; Ozbek, Eray
    The study investigates the flexural behaviour and ductilities of reinforced concrete (RC) T-beams strengthened with perforated steel plates. A total of eight full-scale RC T-beams were tested. Three strengthened beams and a reference unplated beam were reinforced with closely spaced stirrups, while the remaining plated beams and reference beam did not have adequate amounts of shear reinforcement (shear deficient). Shear strengthening with post-tensioned anchors was found to shift the failure mode of a shear-deficient beam from shear to flexure. The post-tensioning forces in the anchors were established to be kept at an optimum level to provide adequate shear strength to the beam and to prevent overstraining of the soffit plate between the shear anchor locations. The perforations increased the ductilities, energy absorption capacities and permanent deformations of the specimens. The use of compression plate in addition to the tension (soffit) plate greatly contributed to the ductilities of specimens with adequate and inadequate shear strength.