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However, models and recommendations in design codes regarding the serviceability limit state are usually based on mean crack width.
Results are given in terms of mean strength curves, ultimate and design strength and strain values, cracked and uncracked moduli, mean crack spacing, mean crack width and energy dissipation.
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AIJ (2010) also recommends a maximum flexural crack width w max of the average crack width multiplied by 1.5.
The average crack width for the cracks, documented on this bridge, ranged between 0.254 and 0.5 mm.
For another bridge in Jacksonville, only 35 cracks with an average crack width ranging from 0.025 to 0.432 mm were found.
Open image in new window Fig. 3 Relationship between average crack width (ACW), maximum crack width (MCW) and cover depth of R/SHCC specimens.
Figure 7a provides the average crack widths measured from all cracks in the 1,016 mm (40 in).
No clear relationship appears to exist between crack width and chloride content for the average crack widths below 0.05 mm in Fig. 19a.
Table 3 Various specifications for the average flexural crack width.
In present practices, residual stresses needed for strength, deflection and crack width analysis are quantified by means of standard bending tests.
Results are crack width distributions and characteristic statistical values like mean values, standard deviations and quantile values over the entire loading range.
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