TY - BOOK AU - Arafa Mahmoud Ahmed AU - Osman Mohamed Osman Ramadan , AU - Sherif Kamal Elwan , TI - Effect of openings on strength and serviceability of RC beams / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Arafa Mahmoud Ahmed , KW - Finite element model KW - Opening KW - Strength N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - Passing services ducts through web openings in floor beams-instead of passing them underneath the beam-soffit reduces the required overall floor height and, consequently, decreases the construction costs. However, the presence of such openings in reinforced concrete beams affects their structural behavior ER -