EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE, MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND DEVELOPMENT OF STRESS BLOCK PARAMETERS OF R.C.C BEAM WITH “V” SHAPED REINFORCEMENT

In civil engineering design and construction the main steel in beams and slabs are used to take the tension and to increase the ductile behavior. In slabs the main and distribution steel is provided in horizontal form. Also the main steel in singly reinforced and doubly reinforced beams is in horizontal form only. But if we replace this horizontal form of the reinforcement in beams and slabs by “V” shaped, reinforcement there will be increase in the moment carrying, shear carrying capacity with reduced deflection by enhancing its ductile behavior because of additional folded plate action and it takes in to account the reversal of loading & thereby the sections becomes more strong in fatigue action.