INELASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE MEMBERS WITH CYCLIC LOADING

The results of an investigation into the behaviour of reinforced concrete members sub-jected to cyclic loading in the inelastic range are summarizedo The investigation comm-ences with studies of the Bauschinger effect for cyclically stre ssed mild steel reinforce-ment and the influence of rectangular steel hooping on the stress-strain behaviour of concre te o Using the se derived stress-strain curves the moment-curvature relation ships for reinforced concrete members under cyclic load-i ng are studied theoretically and compared with the re suit s of a series of tests on reinforced concrete beams under cyclic loadingo 1