ABSTRACT
People, furniture, earthquakes, wind, and other loads cause shear in structures. Imagine you are standing on a floor of a reinforced concrete structure. Your weight is a gravitational load on the concrete slab and it creates internal shear and bending forces, illustrated in Figure 5.1. The slab transfers this shear to the concrete beams which transfer their
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shear to the columns, which carry the forces to the ground as axial loads.
