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Crack Pattern in Concrete

Concrete is strong in compression but weak in tension, with its tensile strength only 7-15% of its compressive strength, posing challenges in construction. When subjected to weight, concrete beams experience compression on top and tensile stress on the bottom, leading to potential failure. Reinforcing bars (rebar) are used to enhance tensile strength, allowing for a more durable structure and providing engineers with time to detect failures before they occur.

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Crack Pattern in Concrete

Concrete is strong in compression but weak in tension, with its tensile strength only 7-15% of its compressive strength, posing challenges in construction. When subjected to weight, concrete beams experience compression on top and tensile stress on the bottom, leading to potential failure. Reinforcing bars (rebar) are used to enhance tensile strength, allowing for a more durable structure and providing engineers with time to detect failures before they occur.

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Concrete has great strength to deal with stress

in the form of compression. The tensile strength of concrete is 7–15% of its compressive strength.
So, the concrete is comparatively weaker than its compressive properties. As a result, the concrete
is not strong enough to withstand the forces that would endanger to pull it apart.

It is a specific problem in construction since the concrete in a building has to encounter both types of
stresses. If any weight is provided on a concrete beam from above, its top will stand up defiantly
against the compression. Its bottom, however, will encounter rigorous tensile stress since the beam
deforms. It develops a situation that engineers often mention by the technical term "bad."

Rebar facilitates to improve this issue as, unlike concrete, rebar has good capacity to combat tensile
stress. Consequently, rebar within concrete both reinforces the subsequent mixture by creating its
strength more all-around as well as reduces the speed at which failure takes place. It allows the
engineers to get sufficient time to identify a failure before it develops.

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