Experimental Testing of Reinforced Concrete Deep Beams Designed by Strut-And-Tie Method
, Mirjana Malešev 1, Danijel Kukaras 2, Vlastimir Radonjanin 1, Miloš Šešlija 1 and Drago Žarković 1Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This document describes a very interesting research on strengthening application for structures designed by Strut-and-Tie method.
- The experimental program needs to be explained more in details. In particular the applied load is not clear enough.
- Differences between FEM A and FEM B must be described in terms of interaction functions and characteristics setting up. It results necessary a comparison with the full-scale test.
- It results necessary to improve the comparison between the experimental test and the simulation analysis performances. This is the reason why, reference figures also must be described more in depth through labels and captions.
- References have to be checked. For instance,
Giuseppe, C., Giovanni, M. Behaviour of concrete deep beams with openings and low shear span-to-626 depth ratio. Engineering Structures 2012, 41, 294-306.
is not correct (authors' surnames).
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English structures and orthography need to be corrected.
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Reviewer 2 Report
the paper presents the results of an experimental program on the validity of the strut and tie model for the shear design of RC deep beams with openingHowever, the authors have failed to properly present their work and the paper cannot be accepted in its current form. The abstract is not informative and just say that the design method proposed in design standards is correct but the reader does not really find the aim and the nouvelty of this work. The introduction is too long and does not clearly position the subject of the present resarch. In the revisied version the authors have to supply few illustratif figures for Struct and Tie model The label of table 6 is wrong and the figure 9 is useless in its actual state The best-developed part is modeling using ABAQUS
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Reviewer 3 Report
The article is interesting with a lot of experimental data and modeling
The novelty of the research is not very clear from the article. The application of finite element modeling can be done for many configurations, but it would be useful for the authors to clearly highlight the novelty of the research. A comparison with other papers that used other models or approaches should also be included. A critical analysis of the current state of research in the field would be useful.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The revised version can be accepted
