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The integrated use of concrete in combination with reinforcement has been acknowledged as a versatile material for structures. The resulting concrete components, whatever their size and shape, are customary assumed to have uniform compression strength and identical mechanical properties over the entire structural component. This contradicts the reality, since in practice the mixing and casting of...