EK625
Partial safety factors: The factors applied to characteristic loads, and properties of materials to take account of the probability of the loads being exceeded and the assessed design strength not […]
EK469
For many materials there is additional time-dependent deformation that is recoverable. This is called viscoelastic or anelastic deformation.
EK211
A structure should be designed to be safe under all conditions of its useful life and to ensure that this is accomplished certain distinct performance requirements, called “limit states“, have […]
EK70
For some materials such as concrete in a simple compression test, there is a region beyond the failure or peak point in which the slope of the stress-strain curve is […]
EK69
For most materials after the initial yield point has been reached,the stress-strain curve continues to rise although the slope becomes progressively less, until the slope falls to zero as failure […]