Specimen Information
Name: Watson and Park 1989, No 10
Type: Spiral
Comments:
Reference: Watson, S., Design of Reinforced Concrete Frames of Limited Ductility, Report 89-4, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, January 1989, 232 pages.
Material Properties
Concrete Strength:40 (MPa)
Transverse Steel:Yield Stress: 372 (MPa)
Longitudinal Steel:Yield Stress: 474 (MPa) Strength: 633.3 (MPa)
Geometry
Diameter: 400 (mm) Cross-Section: Octagonal
Length: L-Inflection: 1,600 (mm) L-Measured: 1,600 (mm)
Test Configuration:Double Ended
Loading
Axial Load:2,652 (kN)
P-D:Shear provided
L-Bottom:0
Longitudinal Reinforcement
Diameter:16 (mm)
Number of Bars:12
Reinforcement Ratio:0.0182
Transverse Reinforcement
Diameter Spiral:8 (mm)
Hoop Spacing, Sv:84 (mm)
Cover to Center of Hoop Bar:17 (mm)
Reinforcement Ratio:0.64
Non-Dimensional Properties
Span-to-Depth Ratio:4
Axial Load Ratio:0.5
Test Results
Failure Type:Flexure
Damage Observation:Concrete Crushing: 0 (mm)
Significant Concrete Spalling: 18.9 (mm)
Long Bar Buckling: 0 (mm)
Long Bar Fracture: 0 (mm)
Spiral Fracture: 31.5 (mm)
Loss of Axial Load Capacity: 0 (mm)
Resources:Force-Displacement Hysteresis (graph)
Force Displacement Data (data)
Record Information
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