2016-03-012016-03-012015978-84-606-9356-7http://hdl.handle.net/11441/36701Congreso celebrado en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla desde el 24 hasta el 26 de junio de 2015.The effective tension area of concrete is a well known parameter in structural concrete. It is involved in several phenomena that affect the design of structural concrete elements, such as cracking, shear deformation or flexural deformation. In this work, the authors put forward a necessary change in the definition of the effective tension area of concrete provided by some groups of Standards.application/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Tension stiffeningEffective area of concreteinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess