ABSTRACT
Residual capacity of existing infrastructures such as bridges has been gaining more and more attention in recent years. In the case of the Netherlands, one of the issues widely discussed is the residual shear capacity of concrete solid slab bridges. Most of those structures have no transverse reinforcement, thus the concrete within the slabs has to carry the shear force. Therefore accurate prediction of the brittle shear failure becomes crucial to structure safety. There are still several aspects making the task more challenging.
