DIYALA JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Abstract

ABSTRACT:- In this work aims at studying the influence of steel plate on the deflection
of self- compacted reinforced concrete beams was investigated experimentally in this study to
know the flexural behavior of these beams. Eight simply supported reinforced concrete beam
were tested under the action of two point loads .The deflections of the beams with and without
plate are measured. The steel plates of thickness (3 mm) with dimensions ( 170 × 350 mm)
were used. These plates were sticked on the concrete beams using epoxy. The steel plate
inside the beam was sticked with and without epoxy (epoxy type EP), while the beams were
taken with and without opening (10 mm diameter). The results show that the plate increased
the capacity of the beam by increased the value of failure load. Hence, the beam with internal
plate with epoxy increased the failure load by 34.2% than beam without plate , and 24.6%
than beam with internal plate without epoxy , and 19.7% than beam with external plate with
epoxy .