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It indicates that the last piece of steel was placed without injury or event during the construction. This practice dates back to the 1800's.

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Similarly, in the case of indefinable influences it is desirable to provide a safety margin, which a plastic construction has, being able to reach larger deformations before it is damaged.Ductility of steel = Safety ''''''A PLASTIC CONSTRUCTION IN A STATE CLOSE TO THE DAMAGE UNDERGOES SIGNIFICANT DEFORMATIONS AND CRACKS.'''''' ''''''A BRITTLE CONSTRUCTION IS DAMAGED SUDDENLY WITHOUT PREVIOUS WARNINGS, HAVING UNDERGONE INSIGNIFICANT DEFORMATIONS AND CRACKS. '''''' ''' ''' The ductility of steel for concrete reinforcement can be defined as an ability to achieve significant deformations without marked increase of stresses beyond the yield strength of steel. 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It is related to the developed knowledge in this area, the greater power of computer calculations as well as to the introduction of the simplified computational method, taking the plasticity condition under consideration, which relies on the assumption of redistribution of bending moments in a calculation carried out with the linear elastic method. The need for ductility Yield strength is a property of steel used for calculation of reinforced concrete constructions. Regarding the stretch of steel, the standards (e.g. PN-B-03264:2002) determine two parameters of reinforcing steel: the yield strength for a given grade of steel and the tensile strength. WHAT CHARACTERIZES GOOD REINFORCING STEEL? '''1. GOOD RESISTANCE PROPERTIES''' ''''''2. GOOD PLASTICITY'''''' High resistance of reinforcing steel is very desirable, but is not sufficient to ensure the proper behaviour of reinforced concrete constructions, for ductility is another important parameter. Concrete, as it is widely known, is a brittle material and without reinforcement cannot be used in the parts of construction exposed to stretch. The need for ductility in construction, which cannot be ensured by concrete, is met entirely by steel. For this reason, steel should have appropriate ductility, in order to ensure the possibility of a turn of a bending cross-section and enable redistribution of bending moments in constructions statically indeterminable. '''Concrete has always been considered the only factor lowering plasticity of a construction due to its brittleness. Reinforcing steel however has ductility at such level that it doesn't disturb the process of plastification in a construction.''' This way of thinking is understandable seeing that in the past steel had lower resistance/durability and thus higher ductility (e.g. steel A-I or A-0). The development of reinforcing steel led to the growth of resistance/durability. 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Similarly, in the case of indefinable influences it is desirable to provide a safety margin, which a plastic construction has, being able to reach larger deformations before it is damaged.Ductility of steel = Safety ''''''A PLASTIC CONSTRUCTION IN A STATE CLOSE TO THE DAMAGE UNDERGOES SIGNIFICANT DEFORMATIONS AND CRACKS.'''''' ''''''A BRITTLE CONSTRUCTION IS DAMAGED SUDDENLY WITHOUT PREVIOUS WARNINGS, HAVING UNDERGONE INSIGNIFICANT DEFORMATIONS AND CRACKS. '''''' ''' '''