AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ENGINEERING STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING Advances In Construction Techniques 1

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t 0.15 S 0.1 0.05 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 Distance from centerline (mm) Fig.1: Strain distribution from the centerline of the column at different load intervals

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TABLE 1: STRAIN VALUES AT CENTERLINE OF COLUMN Distance from Load level centerline of column 0.5 Pmax 0.75 Pmax Pmax 0 0.040 0.060 0.170 50 0.020 0.050 0.147 100 0.025 0.050 0.190 200 0.020 0.045 0.100 1 REFERENCES 1 References shall be cited in the text in square brackets [1], and should follow the following format: 1 [1] Dhir, R.K., Hewlett, P.C., Lota, J.S. and Dyre, T.D. Materials and Structures 27 (1994) 606- 615. [2] Wang, J., Dhir R.K. and Levitt, M. Cement and Concrete Research 24 (8) (1994) 1463-1474. [3] Mehta, P.K. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Durability of Concrete, ACI SP-126, 1 (1991) 1-31.