RESEARCH GRANT AWARD: Design Requirements for Mechanically Spliced High-Strength Reinforcing Bars in Hinge Regions
The Charles Pankow Foundation is pleased to announce the award of a new research grant to the University of Texas at San Antonio and Principal Investigator Wassim M. Ghannoum, Ph.D., P.E. This research addresses a need for structural engineers and contractors: design criteria for mechanical splices in hinge regions that would result in adequate performance for Gr80 and 100 bars, and performance criteria for mechanical splices to allow their use in hinge regions.
This research has been made possible thanks to the generous support of our co-funding partners: American Concrete Institute Foundation, Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Foundation as well as BarSplice, Cascade Steel, CMC, Dayton Superior, HRC, Nucor, nVent and Splice Sleeve.
Providing invaluable industry insights to the research team are the members of the Industry Advisory Panel:
- Tim Cartwright, BarSplice
- Manuel Conde, nVent
- David Fanella, CRSI
- Joe Ferzli, CKC Structural Engineers
- David Fields, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
- Cathy French, University of Minnesota
- Robbie Hall, HRC
- Jon Hankenhof, Dayton Superior
- Dominic Kelly, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
- Jeff Kramer, Cascade Steel
- Andres LePage, Kansas University
- Ann Masek, ACIF
- Eric Nissen, Nucor
- Conrad Paulson, WJE
- Jose Pincheira, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Jacob Selzer, CMC
- Amy Trygestad, CRSI
This work is performed under the research grant award no. 03-22.