<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/10004315" mdate="2016-03-02 00:00:00"> <author>Yadgar Tayfur and Antony Darby and Tim Ibell and Mark Evernden and John Orr</author> <title>Serviceability of FabricFormed Concrete Structures</title> <pages>577 - 582</pages> <year>2016</year> <volume>10</volume> <number>5</number> <journal>International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10004315</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/113</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Fabric formwork is a technique to cast concrete structures with a great advantage of saving concrete material of up to 40. This technique is particularly associated with the optimized concrete structures that usually have smaller crosssection dimensions than equivalent prismatic members. However, this can make the structural system produced from these members prone to smaller serviceability safety margins. Therefore, it is very important to understand the serviceability issue of nonprismatic concrete structures. In this paper, an analytical computerbased model to optimize concrete beams and to predict loaddeflection behaviour of both prismatic and nonprismatic concrete beams is presented. The model was developed based on the method of sectional analysis and integration of curvatures. Results from the analytical model were compared to loaddeflection behaviour of a number of beams with different geometric and material properties from other researchers. The results of the comparison show that the analytical program can accurately predict the loaddeflection response of concrete beams with medium reinforcement ratios. However, it overestimates deflection values for lightly reinforced specimens. Finally, the analytical program acceptably predicted loaddeflection behaviour of onprismatic concrete beams. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 113, 2016</index> </article>