Keeping loading same but increasing the length, normal stresses in a long column will (a) Increase (b) Decrease (c) No change (d) None

Keeping loading same but increasing the length, normal stresses in a long column will  (a) Increase
(b) Decrease
(c) No change
(d) None
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