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Overloading of structures

While the design safety factors will enable a structure to accept some measure of overload structural damage will result from frequent small scale overloading or any major overloading. The effects will be in deflection of members, cracking and in the most serious situation collapse.

Acknowledgement: The Concrete Society

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TR54 Diagnosis of deterioration in concrete structures- identification of defects, evaluation an