Concrete Service Ability

Reinforced concrete (RC) is a composite material comprising concrete and reinforcement. The
interaction of these materials, often referred as bond, has a crucial effect on performance of RC
structures, both in the serviceability and the ultimate limit states. In general practice, design of
RC structures is based on the assumption of full interaction through concrete and reinforcement
interface, i.e. no physical slip is allowed. This simplification is reasonable in load bearing
capacity analysis, however becomes unacceptable when serviceability of RC structures is
considered