Publications de Miguel Fernández Ruiz

Verification of shear failures of cantilever bridge deck slabs subjected to concentrated loads

Shear design and verification of bridge deck slabs subjected to concentrated loads (as those of wheels from traffic) is a topic subjected to scientific and engineering debate, where several questions remain open. Several design procedures have been propose ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Stress Fields and Strut-and-Tie Models as a Basic Tool for Design and Verification in Second Generation of Eurocode 2

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz

Within the frame of the revision of the Eurocode 2 for concrete structures, the section devoted to strut-and-tie design has been up-dated to enhance its applicability, its consistency with other sections and its ease-of-use. As a result, a number of change ...

ASOC ESPANOLA INGENIERIA ESTRUCTURAL-ACHE2023

A Discussion on the Reliability of prEN1992-1-1:2021 Shear Strength Provisions for Fibre Reinforced Concrete Members Without Shear Reinforcement

Miguel Fernández Ruiz

The Eurocode 2 for the design of concrete structures (EN1992-1-1:2004) is undergoing a revision that will lead to the publication of the second generation of this code to be used across all CEN member countries. Therefore, the impact of the code will reach ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2023

A Mechanical Approach for the Punching Shear Provisions in the Second Generation of Eurocode 2

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Duarte Miguel Viúla Faria, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões

The revision of a code is a long-term project that shall fulfil several aims, comprising the enhancement of the ease-of-use and incorporating updated state-of-the-art. With respect to the revision of Eurocode 2 concerning the punching shear provisions, thi ...

ASOC ESPANOLA INGENIERIA ESTRUCTURAL-ACHE2023

Considerations on the partial safety factor format for reinforced concrete structures accounting for multiple failure modes

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Qianhui Yu

The increasing usage of nonlinear analyses for the design of reinforced concrete structures and the necessity of codes of practice to provide a consistent safety format for them is one of the challenges that new generations of codes of practice are facing. ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Measurement of the inclusive and differential t(t)over-bar gamma cross sections in the dilepton channel and effective field theory interpretation in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV

Jean-François Carlin, Rakesh Chawla, Richard Pitts, Arvind Shah, Ian Smith, Randoald Müller, Carlos Andres Peña Reyes, Jung Eung Park, Thomas Mountford, Matthias Finger, Jin Won Seo, Johannes Steen, Josef Andreas Schuler, Olivier Martin, Melody Swartz, Kyumin Lee, Hoang-Trang Lam, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Ananda Sankar Roy, Bertrand François, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Xiaoqiang Wang, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Sun Hee Kim, Jian Zhao, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Justin Terence Notz Pekkanen, Joo Yeon Kim, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Jae-Woo Choi, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila, Myun Sik Kim, Chao Wang, Yixing Chen, Aravind Kumar Chandiran, Tian Cheng, Ana Margarida Da Costa Ricardo, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Characterization of shear deformations in reinforced concrete members without shear reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Raffaele Cantone, Andri Setiawan

The load-carrying capacity of many reinforced concrete structures is governed by shear failures, occurring before reaching the flexural capacity of the member. For redundant systems, such as slabs subjected to concentrated loads, local shear failures (typi ...

2022

Influence of sustained loading on resistance and deformation capacity of reinforced concrete members in compression

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Xhemsi Malja

As acknowledged explicitly or implicitly in most of current design codes, a high level of sustained loading has a detrimental effect on the concrete compressive strength. However, its beneficial effect in terms of deformation capacity is neglected in most ...

ERNST & SOHN2022

Design of slender and squat reinforced concrete members with shear reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Marko Pejatovic

As proposed in several design standards for structural concrete, including Eurocode 2 (EN:1992-1-1:2004) and fib's Model Code 2010, the shear design of slender members with shear reinforcement can be performed by means of consistent models based on suitabl ...

ERNST & SOHN2022

Anchorage of shear reinforcement in beams and slabs

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Frédéric Monney, Qianhui Yu

Anchorage of shear reinforcement, such as links or stirrups, can be performed by providing hooks, bends or heads at their ends, by welding transverse reinforcement or by closing open stirrups with pins. Hooks and bends, also used to enhance the anchorage o ...

2022

Influence of amount of shear reinforcement and its post-yield response on the shear resistance of reinforced concrete members

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Frédéric Monney

The minimum amount of shear reinforcement to be provided in reinforced concrete members has been a topic of debate and research for decades without reaching a consensus. Defining such values is however instrumental to build in an economic manner and to saf ...

ERNST & SOHN2022

Concrete compressive strength: From material characterization to a structural value

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia, Qianhui Yu

The compressive resistance of concrete in new structures is usually characterized on the basis of tests performed on concrete cylinders or cubes under relatively rapid loading conditions. Although efficient for material characterization, these tests do not ...

ERNST & SOHN2021

A prototype pavilion in textile reinforced concrete: a tool for research and pedagogy

Patricia Guaita, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Raffael Baur, David Carlos Fernandez-Ordoñez Hernandez

fib. The International Federation for Structural Concrete2021

The influence of the kinematics of rough surface engagement on the transfer of forces in cracked concrete

Miguel Fernández Ruiz

One of the most instrumental aspects governing the response of structural concrete at ultimate limit state refers to the possibility of developing smeared cracking patterns within a member (associated normally to the presence of sufficient reinforcement fo ...

2021

The influence of transverse reinforcement and yielding of flexural reinforcement on the shear-transfer actions of RC members

Miguel Fernández Ruiz

The assessment of the shear strength of reinforced concrete beams with and without shear reinforcement is investigated in this paper on the basis of the contribution of the various potential shear-transfer actions. To that aim, a comprehensive experimental ...

2021

An interlocking approach for the rebar-to-concrete contact in bond

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Max Tirassa

The bond response of deformed bars in structural concrete is a phenomenon governed, to a large extent, by the rib-to-concrete contact and interaction, with contact forces depending on both material properties and the kinematics between the contact surfaces ...

ICE PUBLISHING2021

A consistent safety format and design approach for brittle systems and application to textile reinforced concrete structures

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri, Qianhui Yu

Design and verification of structures in modern codes of practice account for a safety format, ensuring that the probability of failure does not exceed a given threshold. Although specific safety formats are proposed in some cases for special types of stru ...

2021

A mechanical approach for the maximum punching resistance of shear-reinforced slab-column connections

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões, Diego Hernández Fraile

The use of punching shear reinforcement is currently considered as one of the most convenient practices to enhance the punching shear strength and deformation capacity of slab-column connections in flat slabs. Intensive research has been performed in the l ...

Fédération Internationale du Béton (fib)2021

Design against splitting failures in reinforced concrete due to concentrated forces and minimum bend diameter of reinforcement

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Frédéric Monney

Plastic bending of reinforcement bars against mandrels is the usual procedure to provide bends and hooks for steel reinforcement bars. Minimum mandrel diameters are usually given in to codes of practice, depending on the type of detail and diameter of the ...

2021

Casting position effects on bond performance of reinforcement bars

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Francesco Rafael Alberto Moccia

The phenomena associated with the consolidation of fresh concrete (bleeding and plastic settlement) are commonly considered significant for the bond performance of reinforcement. However, rules to take care of such influence for design are not consistent a ...

ERNST & SOHN2021