Hello and happy Wednesday, 👋👋 Concrete has a great compression capacity. Its tensile capacity, however, is very low. That’s the reason why reinforcement is added to most concrete elements. In most cases, it’s not the concrete compression strength that’s critical, but the tensile strength of the reinforcement. There are, however, a few design situations where the compression stress can be become greater than the compression capacity. In this newsletter, I’ll show you examples of critical...