Structural Qualification of a Developed GFRP-Reinforced Concrete Bridge Barrier using Ultimate Load Testing

International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials

Table 2 Punching shear capacities of the tested GFRP-reinforced PL-3 bridge barriers using available design codes and previous research.

References to punching shear capacity equations	Interior location (V_c, _exp = 621 kN)			End location (V_c,_exp = 593 kN)
References to punching shear capacity equations	V_c	V_c,_exp/V_c ratio^a	V_c,_exp/V_c ratio^b	V_c	V_c,_exp/V_c ratio^a	V_c,_exp/V_c ratio^b
CSA-S806-12 (2012), (V_{c, S806})	323.2	1.88	1.41	350.8	1.69	1.27
ACI 440.1R-06 (2006), (V_{c, ACI 440})	371.5	1.63	1.23	440.6	1.35	1.01
JSCE (1997), (V_{c, JSCE})	649.4	0.93	0.70	715.0	0.83	0.62
El-Ghandour et al. (1999), (V_{c, EGA 1999})	869.8	0.70	0.52	749.9	0.79	0.59
El-Ghandour et al. (2000), (V_{c, EGA 2000})	568.0	1.07	0.80	564.8	1.05	0.79
Matthys and Taerwe (2000), (V_{c, MT})	452.9	1.34	1.01	450.4	1.32	0.99
Ospina et al. (2003), (V_{c, OSP})	621.2	0.98	0.73	617.7	0.96	0.72
El-Gamal et al. (2005), (V_{c, EGM})	561.5	1.08	0.81	642.0	0.92	0.69
Jacobson et al. (2005), (V_{c, JCOB})	512.1	1.19	0.89	452.3	1.31	0.98