CVEN 444 Quiz 1

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Concrete is a material stronger in_________ than it is in _______________.

compression, tension

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An over-reinforced section is one in which…

the steel reinforcement yields after the concrete has reached its max usable strain

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A minimum steel reinforcement requirement is imposed in beam design to…

prevent a brittle-type failure from occuring

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The stress-strain behavior of concrete in compression is linear at stress levels…

up to about f’c/2

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We need safety factors (phi, alpha) in RC design because…

all design variables are random in nature