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Reference Books:
Concrete Structures Part II by Z. A. Siiddiqi
Design of concrete structures by
Arthur H. Nilson David Darwin Charles W. Dolan
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(2) the angle of the neutral axis is varied.

Main difficulty, however, is that neutral axis will not in general, be perpendicular to
the resultant eccentricity, drawn from column center to the load Pn and only for
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An oblique plane, S’2 is defined by three points: A,B and C.

It is used as an approximation to the actual failure surface, S2.
Interaction Surfaces for Reciprocal Load Method 21
Bresler’s reciprocal load equation derives from the geometry of the
approximating plane. It can be shown that

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Interaction Surface 24
General form of these curves can be approximated by a
nondimensional interaction equation
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