Abstract
In the more than sixty years of experience in forensic structural engineering of Adviesbureau Hageman, damages in concrete parking structures in The Netherlands repeatedly passed by. In a study on these damages,mainly based on the comprehensive archive of Adviesbureau Hageman, an overview of the various damages that can be distinguished is made. Furthermore, one category of damages, that is not limited to only parking structures, but generally occurring in concrete structures, is damage to concrete corbels. In order to investigate the behaviour of such corbels under load imposed by the concrete elements that they support, finite element analyses (FEA) are performed with the FE Code ATENA. It was found that damage only occurred in case the bearing material was situated at the edge of the corbel or with an additional horizontal load. In both cases the corbel withstood a rather significant load. In the paper the basic findings of the overview of damages in concrete parking structures and the study on corbel behaviour are presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IABSE Congress Ghent 2025 |
| Subtitle of host publication | The Essence of Structural Engineering for Society |
| Editors | Davide Leonetti, H.H. (Bert) Snijder, Bart De Pauw, Sander van Alphen |
| Place of Publication | Zurich |
| Publisher | International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) |
| Pages | 2645-2653 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-85748-210-6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
| Event | IABSE Congress Ghent 2025: The Essence of Structural Engineering for Society - Ghent, Belgium Duration: 27 Aug 2025 → 29 Aug 2025 https://iabse.org/Ghent2025 |
Conference
| Conference | IABSE Congress Ghent 2025 |
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| Country/Territory | Belgium |
| City | Ghent |
| Period | 27/08/25 → 29/08/25 |
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Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- finite element analysis
- forensic engineering
- parametric study
- parking structures
- reinforced concrete corbels
- support end failure