Magnified Moment Calculation

We’re constantly being bombarded with what other people’s kids are doing, at what age, how fast, etc. … Kids can learn from just about any experience. It’s called magnifying the moment.

The moment magnification procedure was a replacement for the reduction factor method contained in the previous 1963 version of ACI 318. In ACI 318-63, slenderness effects were accounted for by dividing the axial load and moments by a reduction factor less than one.