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    1) Continuity in reinforced concrete structures significantly impacts moments, shears, and reactions. Providing reinforcing steel is necessary to prevent cracking and potential failure where beams connect to other beams or columns. 2) An engineer can initially sketch the deflected shape of a structure to identify potential cracking locations and add reinforcing steel. For more important structures, a more thorough analytical investigation may be needed to accurately determine steel and concrete quantities. 3) The subject is best studied in the order of analysis methods, material properties, then design application. However, engineers often must approach it in reverse order - first considering design possibilities, then material properties, and finally analysis methods. In the past, students focused too much on

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    1) Continuity in reinforced concrete structures significantly impacts moments, shears, and reactions. Providing reinforcing steel is necessary to prevent cracking and potential failure where beams connect to other beams or columns. 2) An engineer can initially sketch the deflected shape of a structure to identify potential cracking locations and add reinforcing steel. For more important structures, a more thorough analytical investigation may be needed to accurately determine steel and concrete quantities. 3) The subject is best studied in the order of analysis methods, material properties, then design application. However, engineers often must approach it in reverse order - first considering design possibilities, then material properties, and finally analysis methods. In the past, students focused too much on

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    Frames of Reinforced Concrete: Continuous

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    1) Continuity in reinforced concrete structures significantly impacts moments, shears, and reactions. Providing reinforcing steel is necessary to prevent cracking and potential failure where beams connect to other beams or columns. 2) An engineer can initially sketch the deflected shape of a structure to identify potential cracking locations and add reinforcing steel. For more important structures, a more thorough analytical investigation may be needed to accurately determine steel and concrete quantities. 3) The subject is best studied in the order of analysis methods, material properties, then design application. However, engineers often must approach it in reverse order - first considering design possibilities, then material properties, and finally analysis methods. In the past, students focused too much on

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    CONTINUOUS FRAMES

    OF REINFORCED CONCRETE

    CHAPTER I
    INTRODUCTION

    General Considerations on Continuity. Continuity affects very much


    the moments in a structure and affects appreciably the shears and re
    actions. It does not require any great amount of mathematics to see
    that this is true. It is a matter of common observation that, where a
    beam is rigidly connected to another beam or to a column, bending in
    one member will produce bending in the others. In structures of rein
    forced concrete, reinforcing steel must be provided for the forces pro
    duced, otherwise cracking will lead to unsightly appearance and pos
    sibly to failure of the structure.
    In many cases we can sketch the shape taken by the deflected struc
    ture, see where cracking might occur, add reinforcing steel to prevent
    If,

    it and be satisfied. however, the structure important and we


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    wish to know accurately how much steel or concrete needed, we will


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    make more thorough investigation. But important to recognize


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    clearly that we do not want to carry this investigation beyond the point
    where will influence the design; we must always remember that what
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    we want a structure,
    not merely an analysis.
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    It almost necessary to study our subject in the order: methods of


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    analysis; a consideration of physical constants; consideration of the


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    application of these values to design. But the engineer must often


    approach the subject in the reverse order; certainly its phases assume
    importance to him in reverse order. First, what can he do with these
    analyses; then what value shall he choose for the physical constants;
    finally how will he analyze it? difficulty in the past has been that
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    the student approached the matter in the succession of analysis, con


    stants, design. The practical designer was forced to approach the
    subject in the order of design, constants, analysis. The student became
    so involved in methods of analysis that he never got far enough to con
    sider the uncertainty of physical constants or the elements of judgment
    involved in design. The busy designer, knowing well enough what
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