Experimental study of the behaviour of reinforced high-strength concrete short corbels

Within the framework of the French National Project BHP 2000 (the BHP 2000 project is detailed in Toutlemondeet al. [1]), seven high-strength reinforced concrete short corbels were tested using concrete from 70 MPa to 120 MPa. The behaviour of a test specimen is characterised by the crack pattern and by LVDT and gauges measurements. The results show the influence of the concrete strength and that of the reinforcement quantity (Bourget and Delmas [2]). The failure conventional shear stresses computations with the relations proposed by B. Fouré [3] show that these relations are adapted to the strength evaluation of the short corbels with a safety coefficient.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]