Monotonic Test on a Knee Joint Under Closing Moment (Headed Reinforcement Bars)

Headed Reinforcement Bars can potentially replace standard or L-shaped hooks, improving the cleaning of costruction details and enabling a faster, flexible and therefore a more economic assembly. A total of 8 knee joints are currently being tested at the Technical University of Madrid. The tests aim at checking whether the design of such the anchorage plates is adequate and whether an element with T-heads is equivalent to one with a conve