Annals of Civil Engineering and Management(ACEM)

BScE (Civil), Canada

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• Review Article   
  A Unified Energy Framework for Structural Material Strength: An AT Mathematics Interpretation of Electromagnetic Bonding in Steel, Concrete, Wood, and Masonry
  Author(s): Paul T E Cusack*
  
  Modern structural engineering relies on experimentally calibrated design equations to predict the strength of concrete, steel, wood, and masonry structures. Limit States Design (LSD) methodologies have achieved remarkable success; however, the fundamental origin of the measured material strengths used in these equations remains primarily empirical. Parameters such as steel yield strength, concrete compressive strength, wood bending strength, and masonry compressive strength are determined through testing rather than derived from a universal physical principle. This paper proposes a theoretical interpretation in which the strength of structural materials is considered a macroscopic expression of electromagnetic interactions occurring at the atomic and molecular level. Since chemical bonding is fundamentally electromagnetic in origin, the mechanical resistance of engineering materials c.. Read More»
  

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