Advances in the research on the shear capacity of oneway bridge slabs under concentrated loads

The research on the shear capacity of bridge deck slabs has gathered much attention on the assessment of bridge deck slabs as the normative codes have adopted more conservative expressions of capacity and heavier design loads. While advances in this topic were attained in the last decades, different interpretations of the test results and solutions have been proposed, varying the level of sophistication of the method. This paper proposes to discuss the most significant advances in the research related to the shear capacity of one-way slabs under concentrated loads in light of the different proposed methods and results described in the literature. Besides that, this paper showcases a summary of the Brazilian developments in this field.