Concrete Tension, Cracking, and Steel Reinforcement

Concrete tension behavior is important because cracking often begins when concrete is pulled apart or combined with shear. A previous lab on concrete in compression showed that concrete can carry very large compressive stresses, but the failures did not occur as pure compression failures. Instead, they formed along shear pla...

Reinforced concrete has greater strength than unreinforced concrete because the steel in the reinforced section can be used to carry large tensile forces, as will be demonstrated in this laboratory testing.

Concrete can withstand very large stresses under uniaxial compressive forces. However, the failures observed are not compressive in n...