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the minimum are of reinforcement is to control thermal and shrinkage cracking within acceptable limits.
also minimum steel area ensures that the reinforcement does not yield when concrete in tension zone cracks with a sudden transfer of stress to the rienforcement.
other hand,
the maximum is to acheive adequate compcation of concrete around reinforcement.
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