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Full Scale Heavily Reinforced Concerete Beam-Column Joints of NPP Structures-Quality Assurance and Construction in the Laboratory

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Title Full Scale Heavily Reinforced Concerete Beam-Column Joints of NPP Structures-Quality Assurance and Construction in the Laboratory
 
Creator Thandavamoorthy, T.S.
Vimalanandam, V.
Anandavalli, N.
Reddy, G.R.
 
Subject Reinforced concrete
Beam-column joints
Seismic excitation
 
Description An experimental programme was planned in the SERC laboratory to construct identical large sized joints with the same reinforcement percentage and detail as that of the existing joints in NPP structures built in 1960s. the paper presents details of the size of the specimen and reinforcement, testing of steel bars for the evaluation of their mechanical properties, procedure of casting of specimen and its health monitoring.
 
Date 2009
2009
2009
 
Type Conference paper
 
Identifier National Seminar on Seismic design of Nuclear Power Plants, 21-22 February, 2013, Chennai, India, p.517-526. Organised by Structural Engineering Research Centre, CSIR Campus, Chennai.
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Language en