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The document discusses the safety of concrete members at the initiation of cracking. It uses the example of a hanging concrete bar carrying a weight to illustrate two key points: 1) The force that causes cracking (P=8 kips) is different from the force that causes rupture (P=20 kips) because initiation of cracking depends on the entire structure, but post-cracking safety depends only on the cracked section. 2) For the bar to be safe after cracking at section X-X, 4 reinforcement bars would be needed to r
- Author
- ephrem
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- EN