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Originally posted by JIMC5499
The alloy of steel used in its construction was selected for it's ability to maintain enough strength for the operation of this chamber plus a factor of safety.
The temperature dependent stress-strain properties of concrete and steel were taken from EC2 [3] and EC3 [2] respectively. As discussed earlier the effect of steel stress-strain properties is very limited and the results are not sensitive to minor variations in these.