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Why should steel fail(yield) first before the concrete in RC beam?
1. Could someone kindly explain why steel should yield first before concrete fails? 2. Let's say on the tension side of a beam, how would the steel fails first before the concrete knowing that the steel is basically the one that support the tensile stress? Isn't it that the concrete would...- jnlbctln
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