Faculty of Applied Engineering and Urban Planning

Civil Engineering Department

Dr. Eng. Mustafa Maher Al-tayeb

2nd Semester 2013/2014

CVL 4325
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 Block Shear :
• For tension:
• Ant and Agt : the net and gross areas along the
tension surface bc.
• Fu Ant : the nominal strength in tension for
fracture.
• Fy Agt : the nominal strength in tension for
yielding.
• For shear:
• Anv and A gv : the net and gross areas along the
shear surface ba.
• 0.6 FuA nv : the nominal strength in shear
for fracture.
• 0.6 FyAgv : the nominal strength in shear for
yielding.
 Tension members
Block Shear :
• There are two failure modes:
• For shear yield and tension fracture the design strength :

• For fracture shear and tension the design strength :

Tension members
 Tension members
Design of tension members :
The sum of factored loads not exceed the member strength;
that is:

For tension members:

To prevent yielding:

To avoid fracture:

Radius of gyration