The yield moment of a cross section is the bending moment that causes yielding to first occur in which part of the section?

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17 Jan 2019
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The yield moment corresponds to the moment at which the outermost fiber, located furthest from the neutral axis, reaches the yield stress first. This is because the extreme fibers experience the maximum stress under bending.

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