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Because of the boundary conditions in points A and B, TotalMb and TotalMa should be zero. You could write two different equations from here, and 2 more equations comes from TotalFy and TotalFx. And here you go, you have 4 equations and 4 unknowns, which you can solve for all the unkowns

As what was said about the subject in soil mechanics problems are not generally about tensile stresses. Failures generally happen because of the soil couldn't bear the sheer stress applied by the structure. We cannot generalize compression enhancing soil's sheer strenght, it should be examined...

Of course they are, when the concrete gets hardened the forces generated by magnetism would be negligable. But before the concrete gets hardened, when it's still in a liquid form wouldn't those magnetic forces help the concrete to better converge with the structural steel, ultimately increasing...

Hey there, I am currently majoring in civil engineering. A while ago when I was wondering about ferromagnetism an idea occurred to me: In reinforced concrete design adherence between structural steel and concrete is a very important feature. Simply, if we could enhance the adherence, this...