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352 New York Minutes 4-17-05
352 New York Minutes 4-17-05
ACI-ASCE Committee 352 Meeting @ ACI Spring 2005 Convention New York, NY
Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)). They are part of an ACI-ASCE task group looking
into future sponsorship options with respect to all of the technical committees that are
currently jointly sponsored by ACI and ASCE SEI. They made a presentation about the
various benefits, opportunities, expectations, and required oversight envisioned for the
current ACI-ASCE joint committees (to both ACI and SEI) if they were to have ACI as
their major sponsor vs. if they were to have SEI as their major sponsor (with the
respective other organization as the minor sponsor). Other possible options could include
having either only ACI or SEI as the sole committee sponsor. An informal poll of the
committee members in attendance indicated almost unanimous support for continuing on
as a jointly sponsored committee, with ACI as the major sponsor and SEI as the minor
sponsor. Opportunities available to us with SEI as our minor sponsor may include such
things as having committee reports published in the ASCE Journal of Structural
Engineering, periodically holding sessions at the ASCE Structures Congress, etc.
5. Update about Summary Article by the Task Group on Eccentric Connections
Jim LaFave reported to the committee on behalf of this task group (which also
includes John Bonacci, Burcu Burak, and Myoungsu Shin). Their summary article
regarding the seismic performance and design of eccentric reinforced concrete beamcolumn connections, based mainly on a lot of relatively new test data that they found in
the literature since the publication of ACI 352R-02, has recently been accepted for
publication by Concrete International (CI) and should appear in an issue of CI later this
summer.
6. Report from the Slab-Column Connection Report Subcommittee
Thomas Kang made a follow-up presentation supplementing the information that he
had presented at our previous committee meeting regarding the drift capacity at punching
of post-tensioned slab-column connections subjected to cyclic loading. He specifically
reported on six additional connections recently tested in Korea as part of a collaborative
effort between Hanyang University and UCLA. (The tests and results presented led to
some brief discussions about related topics such as effects of the presence or lack of any
torsion reinforcement adjacent to the joint, as well as the need for continuous top /
bottom longitudinal steel through such connections.) Along with some other new tests
recently found in the literature, this brings the subcommittees total database of isolated
post-tensioned slab-column connections up to 32 (12 interior, 11 exterior, and 2 corner
connections without shear reinforcement, as well as 7 exterior connections with shear
reinforcement). Thomas summarized the trends in the database in terms of gravity shear
ratio vs. drift ratio at punching, and he further presented a drift capacity model pertaining
to these test results. Finally, based on the entirety of the database, Thomas has
developed the concepts and drafted some tentative detailed language for the proposed
new Chapter 7 to be added to the revised version of our committees slab-column
connection report document (ACI 352.1R-89), specifically addressing post-tensioned slabcolumn connections and frames.
With respect to shear reinforcement used at slab-column connections, Ian Robertson
raised the question of how much of this type of information we want to include in our
document, especially given possible overlap with what is (or may be in the future) included
right in ACI 318 (i.e., does anybody ever even use shear-heads, will headed studs soon
be covered in the code, etc.). Also, it was pointed out by Marvin Criswell and others that a
subcommittee of ACI 445 may be planning to publish an SP in conjunction with some
sessions they will be holding at an upcoming ACI convention covering a number of
ACI-ASCE Committee 352 Meeting @ ACI Spring 2005 Convention New York, NY
ACI-ASCE Committee 352 Meeting @ ACI Spring 2005 Convention New York, NY
possibly in conjunction with their reviewing, revising, and developing a new version of this
document.
10. Schedule for the Next Committee Meeting
The next committee meeting is planned for the ACI Fall Convention in November
2005. Committee members present indicated that, in general, Sunday afternoon meetings
should continue to work well for them.
11. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 4:45p.
Respectfully submitted,
James M. LaFave
Chair, ACI-ASCE Committee 352
ACI-ASCE Committee 352 Meeting @ ACI Spring 2005 Convention New York, NY