It is small, an ugly concrete corner of Limerick.
But they were only playing, and had managed to fashion a bit of excitement out of an inhospitable concrete corner.
They absorb tensile and compressive forces and transmit them to the next precast concrete corner element.
The prestressing cables have no anchor points on the reinforced concrete corner elements so as to avoid unbalanced forces.
To speed up the process, the concrete corner elements and the trussed beams should be delivered to the building site in good time.
During assembly, a steel ring stabilizes the quarter-circle-shaped concrete corner elements and ensures accurate installation of the trussed beams.
Material properties of confined concrete, corner strength enhancement of cold-formed steel sections, residual stresses and plate local buckling were considered in the developed model.
Test parameters considered in this study are the density of steel fibers, concrete corner condition, concrete surface treatment, SRP jacket height, and number of confinement layers.
An insufficient distance between the groove and the specimen edge reduces the bond capacity and could result in a splitting failure of the concrete corner.
