Setting Bar-Bending Requirements for High-Strength Steel Bars

Setting Bar-Bending Requirements for High-Strength Steel Bars

Limited tests are available that investigate the relation between bend diameter and the ductility, or conversely the brittleness, of reinforcing bars at bends. No such tests exist for the newly developed high-strength reinforcement having yield strengths of 80 and 100 ksi.

There are three categories of experimental tests that are useful for investigating the behavior of bends in reinforcing bars, with each category of tests geared to answer a particular question:
- Visual inspections of bends (ASTM bend tests)
- Bend-rebend tests
- Bend tests in concrete

• Grant Details

  Project

  Setting Bar-Bending Requirements for High-Strength Steel Bars

  Grantee

  The University of Texas at Austin

  Category

  Concrete

  Subcategory

  High-Strength Rebar

  Grant #

  01-15

  Award Amount

  $78,951

  Grant Period

  January 2015 - December 2015

  Grant Status

  Complete

  Principal Investigators

  Wassim M. Ghannoum, Ph. D.

  Industry Champions

  Mike Mota - CRSI

  CPF Allies

  American Concrete Institute Foundation (ACIF), Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI)

• Resources / Downloads

  • Setting Bar-Bending Requirements for High-Strength Steel Bars, 2016

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