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strain at which cover coneret is considered to have com-
letely spalled and ceases to carry any stress;
Tens rupture stan onconiete = JE:
reversal (nloading strain in concrete model;
strain rate (per second);
‘ao of act of longitudinal steel to area of core of section;
ratio of volume to transverse confining steel to volume of,
confined concrete core; and
ratio of area of longitudinal reinforcement to gross area of
column.
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OsseRvep StREss-STRAIN BEHAVIOR
or ConFineD CONCRETE
By J.B. Mander,! M. J. N. Priestly, and R. Park,? Fellow, ASCE.
‘Aesmacr: Thirty-one nearly full-size reinforced conerete columns, of|
Circular, square, or rectangular wall cross section, and containing
various arrangements of reinforcement, were loaded concentrically with
axial compressive strain rates of up to 0.0167/s. The circular sections
contained longitudinal and spiral reinforcement, the square sections