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Reappraisal of Concepts Underlying Reinforced-Concrete Design

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Since the mid-eighties, there has been an increasing amount of experimental evidence which shows that many of the concepts underlying current-code provisions for the design of reinforced-concrete (RC) structures are in conflict with fundamental properties of concrete at both the material and the structure levels.

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Kotsovos, M.D. (2014). Reappraisal of Concepts Underlying Reinforced-Concrete Design. In: Compressive Force-Path Method. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00488-4_1

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