Sentence examples for control slabs from inspiring English sources

The strengthened slabs showed equal or higher capacity of the control slabs with openings.

Test results also showed a significant reduction in width, and total area of plastic shrinkage cracks of slabs reinforced with an increased amount of RP fibers compared to control slabs without fibers.

Providing additional internal reinforcement by a reinforcing ratio of 1.88% exhibited outstanding performance in terms of decreased crack width, better crack distribution, and improved capacity and ductility compared to control slabs without internal ECC strips.

The sealed slabs performed very close to the control slab.

Open image in new window Fig. 16 FE model of the control slab, slab (1), and reinforcement mesh.

The initial stiffness of specimens reinforced with stud-rail have increased by about 12.5% compared to the control slab.

The control slab is failed at an ultimate load of 130 kN with a corresponding deflection of 13 mm.

In the experimental programme, five full scale RC slabs including un-strengthened control slab and flexurally strengthened slabs using steel plates were fabricated and tested.

The control slab, without any induced cracks, was tested to a force of 32 kN at which three cracks equally spaced at ~10.2 cm were developed.

In terms of ductility provided by the shear studs layout improved the ductility by a significant percentage (246%) compared to the control slab.

It can be seen form Table 7 that locating the cutout at the hogging zone (S2), increased the ultimate load by 9% compared to the control slab.