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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 108
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Edited by: J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 14

A Comparison of Crack Width Calculations

M. Vinkler and J. Procházka

Department of Concrete and Masonry Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "A Comparison of Crack Width Calculations", in J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 14, 2015. doi:10.4203/ccp.108.14
Keywords: concrete, crack width, concrete cover, degree of reinforcement, serviceability limit states.

Summary
The paper is concerned with the calculation of crack widths initiating from mechanical loads according a number of different recommendations and derived formulas. For comparison the following recommendations were chosen: the Czech standard CSN EN 1992-1-1 including two of several considered variants of the forthcoming revised national supplement, the German standard DIN EN 1992-1-1, the French standard NF EN 1992-1-1 with corresponding national supplements, the fib Model Code for Concrete Structures 2010 and the American standard ACI 318-05. Standards for crack width calculations were supplemented with formulas derived from experiments: Gergely and Lutz (1968) as well as Oh and Kang (1987). Differences in the studied approaches were compared for model examples of reinforced concrete slab loaded with bending moments. The compared parameters are thickness of concrete cover and the geometrical degree of reinforcement.

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