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Shear Strength of Reinforced Concrete Beams

Bresler, Boris; Scordelis, Alex C.

UCB/SESM-1961/13, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1961-06, 84 pages (515/B72/1961)

Reports early investigation of the general behavior and determines the cracking load and ultimate strength of a specially designed series of twelve reinforced concrete beams.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-61-13.pdf (7 MB)