www.ernst‐und‐sohn.de Page 1 Structural Concrete This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/suco.201500151. Submitted: 18‐Sep‐2015 Revised: 28‐Jan‐2016 Accepted: 20‐Feb‐2016 © 2015 Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin Technical Paper On the reliability of design approach for FRC structures according to Model Code 2010: the case of elevated slabs Marco di Prisco 1 , Paolo Martinelli 2* , Benoit Parmentier 3 1 Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, P.za L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan (Italy). 2* Corresponding author, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, P.za L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan (Italy). e-mail: paolo.martinelli@polimi.it; tel: 0039-0223998785; fax: 0039-0223998771 3 Head of Division, Belgian Building Research Institute (BBRI), Division Structures, 21 Avenue P. Holoffe, B-1342 Limelette (Belgium). ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the reliability of the design approach proposed in Model Code 2010 for the estimation of the ultimate capacity of fibre–reinforced concrete (FRC) elevated slabs on the basis of different tests for material characterisation. The fracture properties of the material are determined through three–point bending tests on notched beams, and through double edge wedge splitting (DEWS) tests carried out on cylinders cored in the full–size test structure. As a case study, an FRC elevated flat slab is considered, consisting of 9 bays (panels) of a 6×6 m² dimension and supported by sixteen circular concrete columns having a thickness of 0.2 m and a full–size of 18.3×18.3 m². The ultimate bearing capacity of the slab experimentally determined is compared with the design value predicted by means of a procedure based on limit Accepted Article