Short consoles, as well as some reinforced concrete elements, have discontinuity regions (D regions), where Bernoulli's hypotheses should not be taken into account, since stress flows do not distribute linearly along the cross section. In order to correct the disturbances caused by this flow in specific areas, it is necessary to look for alternatives of calculation through equations idealized by empirical perceptions of researchers, or by means of the Strut-and-Tie Method. In this context and after theoretical and experimental observations of consoles, it was concluded that it is formed in this structure a bottle-shaped strut, and although there is a considerable database in this regard, there is no consensus in the literature and among current codes that relate between continuous reinforcement rates, failure mode and strut efficiency factors . Thus, an experimental study was carried out to evaluate the contribution of three types of fibers (discontinuous reinforcement), polypropylene, polyethylene and steel, which were added to the concrete in three different contents for each one. The results showed that in general there were similar behaviors for the concrete readings, and the opposite when analyzing the continuous reinforcement that suffered tensile stresses (Tie). For the elements with metallic fibers the resistance gain in relation to the reference specimens was noticed for the part that received higher fiber
content. For synthetic fibers, polypropylene fiber had better gain in the specimen with second best fiber volume, and for polyethylene was registered for the lowest percentage. These consoles also presented better ductile behavior among all the test elements that did not receive horizontal stirrups. Regarding the results compared to the specimen with continuous reinforcement only the one with polyethylene fiber achieved superior result.
Regarding the strut efficiency factors, the method presented results against and in favor of safety, while with respect to the shear strength the codes estimates had very favorable results. Therefore, MBT is a very suitable method for design that presents efficiency and safety through structures that present stress and deformation disturbances.
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