“There can be punching shear failures without earthquakes ... if you use shear studs as compared to any other type of shear reinforcement,” he says. “I don't think that is justified.” ...

Increasing the GFRP reinforcement ratio from 0.71 to 1.62 percent raised the punching shear capacities at failure significantly. Lower strains in the reinforcement and smaller slab deflections also ...

is given as where Vc is the concrete’s contribution to shear resistance and Vf is the contribution from FRP shear reinforcement, typically in the form of stirrups (the “f” subscript denotes the use of ...

The court-appointed firm investigating the tragedy recently released an initial report identifying “punching shear” as the first point of failure. Months before Champlain collapsed ...