AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF STEEL PLATEANCHOR ASSEMBLY EMBEDDED IN CONCRETE UNDER CYCLIC LOADING
Deepak K. SAHU Student IIT Kanpur, Kanpur India
Saiwal KRISHNA Ph.D. Student IIT Kanpur, Kanpur India saiwal@iitk.ac.in
S.K. CHAKRABARTI Professor IIT Kanpur, Kanpur India chakra@iitk.ac.in
D.K. Sahu received his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering in 2002 from CET, OUAT (Bhubaneswar). He received his M. tech. degree in Civil engineering in 2004 from IIT Kanpur with specialization in Structural Engineering. From 2004 to 2012 he has worked in the power sector in various organisations. He has vast experience in conceptualisation, project development, design, execution and project management. Since 2012 he is running own design consultancy with primary focus in renewable energy sector.
Saiwal Krishna received his B.Tech degree in Civil Engineering from NIT Jalandhar in 2011. He received his M.Tech degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2014 with specialization in Structural Engineering.
S.K. Chakrabarti received his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering in 1972 from Bengal Engineering College (University of Calcutta), and, both Masters degree in Civil Engineering and Doctoral degree in Civil Engineering from University of Arizona, USA in 1983 and 1987, respectively. During the periods 1973-1981 and 19871988, he worked in industry (design of nuclear and thermal power plant structures) in India and USA. He held the position of Professor (2008-2010) in University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and the positions of Visiting Professor (2002) and Visiting Associate Professor (1998) in Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand) and Tribhuvan University (Nepal), respectively. Presently, he is a Professor of Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur.
Summary An experimental study has been undertaken to investigate the behaviour of steel plate-anchor 128  Volume 45
Number 4 December 2015
assembly embedded in concrete under reverse cyclic loading. Three full scale specimens were tested under reverse cyclic eccentric load. Only the relative stiffness of plate and anchors were altered keeping all other The Bridge and Structural Engineer