Use the code defined simplified method of analysis to draw and determine the bending moments and the shear forces for which the beam shown in Figure 1 should be designed.
(60 Marks)
Design the flexural reinforcement for this beam based on the maximum negative and maximum positive bending moments using only N24 reinforcement.
Jeremy Bentham, British reformer and “father of utilitarianism,” who also wrote the rebuttal to the Declaration of Independence the British government distributed to several hundred soldiers on the ground in the colonies, declared rights “nonsense upon stilts.” He wanted to justify political claims on political processes and social good rather than on metaphysical concepts like “rights” that clearly had no basis in reality. Which do you think is a better political approach: rights or utility? How would Susan B. Anthony’s argument look different if the Declaration of Independence had been based on principles of utility? Do you think the document would have had the same degree of enduring inspirational power if it had been based on utility rather than “self-evident” “natural rights”?
April 18, 2015
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