Wide Concrete Members: Shear Failure Test Database

170 experimental tests on wide concrete members without stirrups that failed in shear. The database includes wide beams and one-way slabs loaded over the full width, with members featuring different support conditions. It is a collection of structural engineering test results for analyzing shear capacity.

Use Cases

• [Model validation] based on [experimental shear failure results]
• [Shear capacity analysis] based on [member geometry and support conditions]
• [Comparative study of design codes] based on [failure load data from 170 tests]
• [Educational tool for structural mechanics] based on [experimental case studies of wide members]

Strengths

• Contains 170 distinct experimental tests, providing a substantial sample size for analysis.
• Focuses on a specific structural failure mode (shear) for a defined member type (wide beams/slabs without stirrups).
• Includes varied support conditions, which likely adds to the dataset's applicability to real-world scenarios.

Limitations

• Column names and specific measured variables are not provided, limiting detailed feature analysis.
• Metadata such as row count, file size, and last update date are consistently missing across all sources.
• Some platform tags (e.g., 'Shear (geology)', 'Petrology') are clearly misapplied, indicating potential metadata quality issues.

Provenance

Source

Alex Micael Dantas de Sousa, Universidade de São Paulo

Collection Method

Likely compiled from published experimental studies on concrete member testing.