EK641
The shear wall functions like a vertical cantilevered diaphragm, where load at the top is transferred to the bottom edge.
EK621
The ultimate limit state: Inability to sustain any increase in load.
EK615
High-strength bolts in slip-critical joints may share the load with welds on the same connection interface if the bolts are fully tightened before the welds are made.
EK614
Bolts or high-strength bolts in bearing-type connections should not be considered as sharing the load with welds. If welds are used, they should be designed to carry the load in […]
EK608
A common assumption in wind distribution for the type of light mill building is that the windward columns take a large share of the load acting on the side of […]
EK607
The crane girder must be designed as laterally unsupported beam carrying vertical and horizontal load at the level of the topflange.
EK602
Mechanism condition: The ultimate or collapse load is reached when amechanism is formed. The number of plastic hinges developed should bejust sufficient to form a mechanism.
EK579
The limit state design method is essentially based on the concept of probability. Its basic feature is to consider the possibility and probability of the collapse load. In this respect, […]
EK572
In the Yield Plateau the load remains constant as the elongation increases to nearly ten times the yield strain.
EK555
As frame deforms under increasing load, changes in geometry may induce additional second order moments within members. These changes in geometry may be due to the movement at the ends […]
EK543
When the pull on the bar is small, high stresses develop near the loaded end of the bar; some slip of the bar occurs as adhesion between the bar and […]
EK536
The angle at which the steel rib bears on the concrete changes as load acting on the reinforcing bar increases.
EK522
If no drainage is possible from a soil, because the soil has been sealed off, or because the load is applied so quickly and the permeability is so small that […]
EK507
There are two common modes of settlement of non-free-draining soils (fine-grained soils, fine sand, and medium sand with fines greater than 10%). One is the natural drainage of water from […]
EK454
Influenced by consolidation induced by placement of fill and/or lowering of the water table, soils along the upper portion of a pile will tend to compress and move down relative […]
EK440
Relaxation is a decrease in load or stress under a sustained constant deformation.
EK431
The response of the beam remains linear and elastic almost to the stage when the stress in the extreme fibre has reached the value of the yield stress. From there […]
EK385
The load should not be shared between welds and fasteners of different stiffnesses.
EK384
Due to the limited deformation capacity of end fillet welds care should be taken to avoid the possibility of their being subject to a load much greater than the design […]
EK338
Principle of St. Venant states that the actual distribution of the load over the surface of its application will not affect the distribution of stress or strain on sections of […]
EK329
When masonry is aid in a running bond pattern, it creates a natural corbelled arch which transfers much of the vertical load to either side of the opening. The area […]
EK300
If the slab is supported on four sides and the ratio of the long side to the short side is equal to or greater than 2, most of the load […]
EK272
Shrinkage cracks affect the pattern of cracking that is produced by loads in flexural members. When they develop, they form a weak path in the concrete. When load is applied, […]
EK254
Creep increases with an increase of stress in specimens made from concrete of the same strength and with the same duration of load.
EK185
When the precast unit is designed with the entire load acting directly on it, the vertical shear in the joints need not be considered as there will be zero shear […]
EK166
Shear and bearing joints using close tolerance bolts in fitted holes behave in a similar manner to connections with clearance holes, except that the bolt slips are greatly reduced. Slip […]
EK164
When a braced or unbraced frame has low slenderness, so that ratio between elastic buckling load and acting load is greater or equal to 15, then EC3 allows all the […]
EK162
When an unbraced frame has moderate slenderness so that the ratio between elastic buckling load and acting load is greater or equal to 3, but lower than 10, than EC3 […]
EK161
When a braced or unbraced frame has low slenderness so that ratio between elastic buckling and acting load is greater than or equal to 10, then EC3 allows the moments […]
EK149
If the beam was statically indeterminate, the plastic hinge does not reduce it to a mechanism, and it can support any additional load. This additional load causes a redistribution of […]
EK148
If the beam was originally statically determinate, plastic hinge reduces it to a mechanism, and prevents it from supporting any additional load.
EK147
As the load on a ductile steel beam is increased, the stresses in the beam also increase, until the yield stress is reached. With further increases in the load, yielding […]
EK145
When the load reaches the elastic buckling value at which the original straight position of the member is one of neutral equilibrium, the member may deflect laterally without any change […]
EK144
In many practical tension members with more than one row of holes, the reduction in the cross-sectional area may be reduced by staggering the rows of holes. In this case, […]
EK141
Different types of load have different probabilities of occurrence and different degrees of variability, and that the probabilities associated with these loads change in different ways. Because of this, different […]
EK88
Have a rectangular slab simply supported along each edge, carrying a uniformly distributed load throughout. The slab is assumed to be of constant depth and reinforced in each direction parallel […]
EK48
Outside the kern, a load produces stresses of different sign.
EK47
The kern is the area around the center of gravity of a cross-section within which any load applied produces stress of only one sign throughout the entire cross-section.
EK42
In a bolted joint based on the plastic theory the end bolts are assumed to be stressed to their yield point. As the total load on the connection be increased, […]
EK20
Most structures are elastic bodies and the deformations under load are considered to be small so that changes in geometry are generally ignored. For this reason, when considering equilibrium the […]
EK17
A column with some initial lateral deflection will exhibit non-linear behavior as the load is increased. The non-linearity is not significant at normal design loads, but it becomes highly pronounced […]
EK16
For structures that behave in a linear manner, the principle of superposition can be applied. This principle refers to the fact that a superposition of effects from several load systems […]
EK04
The superposition is not valid in cases where the geometry of structure changes on application of load.