TURNING MOVEMENT OF REINFORCED CONCRETE ELEMENTS WITH INCLINED CRACKS

Abstract

The article proposes a technique for determining the mutual displacement of the edges of an inclined crack. The element with an oblique crack is replaced by an element with a step change in the section height. The equivalent section height is defined as the average between the height above the inclined crack and the total section height. The calculation method allows determining displacements in an inclined crack without using software packages using volumetric finite elements. The technique has sufficient accuracy for engineering calculations.