RC Beam Design Procedure

Reinforced Concrete Beam Design Procedure

Reinforcement

Main

DATA State

Effective Span of Beam L (m) Concrete Compressive Strength Class C?/? Characteristic compressive cylinder strength of concrete, fck (N/mm2) Characteristic strength of Reinforcement, fyk (500 N/mm2) Breadth of Beam b (mm) Overall Depth of Beam h (mm) Characteristic Loadings Dead and Imposed (kN, kN/m, kN/m2) Main Bar 16 - 40mm Link Bar 8 - 12mm

DURABILITY & FIRE RESISTANCE State Exposure Class from T 4.1 (EC2) & Required Fire Resistance (mins) Determine Nominal Cover (mm) from T NA.2 (NA to EC 2) & T 5.2a (EC 2 Part 1-2) Calculate Effective Depth of Beam, d = h cover link main bar (mm) LOADING @ ULS Calculate Design Ultimate Load, F = 1.35DL + 1.5 IL (kN) (=1.35Gk + 1.5Qk MOMENT @ ULS Calculate Design Ultimate Moment, MEd (=FL/8, =FL/4, =FL/6, etc) (kNm) Calculate Show that Calculate Show that Calculate
K = MEd/bd2fck K < 0.167 (K) Lever Arm Factor z/d = 0.5 + ( 0.25 0.882K ) 0.82 z/d 0.95 Lever Arm, z = z/d d (mm) State z/d OK
(use N & mm)

EC 0)

State No compression steel required

MAIN REINFORCEMENT Calculate Required Area of steel reinforcement, As = MEd / 0.87fykz (mm2) Determine Show that
Number &

(use N & mm)

of bars, such that Provided As > Required As (e.g. Use 3H25 (1470mm2) ) As is between Max & Min Limits: 0.0013bd 0.00016 fck2/3bd As 0.04bh (mm2) State As OK

CRACKING @ SLS Sketch A section through the beam showing the main bars, links, clear & bar spacing. Show that Calculate Show that
Clear spacing is greater than minimum limits = 25mm, or max bar .

Service stress, s & hence the max bar

& spacing from T 5.6 (ISE Manual)

Bar diameter OR bar spacing is less than the maximum values from T5.6 State Cracking OK 1

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Reinforced Concrete Beam Design Procedure

Reinforcement

Shear

SHEAR @ ULS Determine Design value of the applied Shear Force, VEd (kN)
= Max SF from SFD, at the support for a SSB

Calculate

Design Shear Stress, vEd

= VEd/bw0.9 d (N/mm2)

State bW

CONCRETE STRUT CHECK Determine Capacity of Concrete Struts, vRd,max (N/mm2) from Table 7.2 (Concise EC2), for o and fck For beams with low shear stress: Show that vEd < vRd,max

= 21.8o, look up vRd,max value in bold column:

State OK against crushing
Go to Shear Reinforcement

State that

cot = 2.5

For beams with high shear stress: 21.8o < column: Show that vEd < vRd,max

< 45, look up vRd,max value in other

Calculate Show that

crushing

= 0.5 sin-1[vEd /0.20 fck(1 - fck/250)]

cot

Calculate cot
State OK against
Go to Shear Reinforcement

>1.0

SHEAR REINFORCEMENT For beams with low shear stress Calculate vEd bw/1087 (mm2/mm)

Assume

Asw/s (mm2/mm) Asw = Area of Shear Steel, in mm2, & Link Spacing = s, where max s = 0.75d mm, Asw/s vEd bw /1087 (mm2/mm)

Refer to Rebar Ratio Tables

Show that Calculate Assume

Go to Shear Reinforcement Checks

For beams with high shear stress vEd bw/435cot

Asw/s (mm2/mm) Asw = Area of Shear Steel, in mm2, & Link Spacing = s, where max s = 0.75d mm, Asw/s vEd bw /435cot (mm2/mm)

Refer to Rebar Ratio Tables

Show that

Go to Shear Reinforcement Checks

SHEAR REINFORCEMENT CHECKS Calculate 0.08 fck0.5 bw /500 (mm2/mm)

Minimum value

Show that

Asw/s 0.08 fck0.5bw /500 (mm2/mm)

State Asw/s OK

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Show that State

75 < s < 0.75d (mm) Bar Type, , and Spacing of Links Check

State Link Spacing OK eg H8 @ 200c/c (H8-03-200) Deflection

Reinforced Concrete Beam Design Procedure

DEFLECTION @ SLS Calculate Actual span-to-effective-depth ratio, L/d Calculate Determine Determine Calculate Determine State that State
(N/mm2) Required tension reinforcement ratio, = (As,req /bd)100 (%

Basic span-to-effective-depth ratio, N from Table 15.10. (Concise EC2), for and fck Factor K from Table 15.11. (Concise EC2), for beam type beff/bw beff = bw for rectangular sections

Factor F1 from Table 15.12. (Concise EC2), for flanged beam geometry. Factor F2 = 1 for non brittle partitions over a 7m+ span Service stress, s = 435(Gk + 0.3Qk /1.35Gk + 1.5Qk)(As req /As prov)

As req is the area of tension reinforcement required at the section considered for the ultimate limit state. As prov is the area of reinforcement actually provided.

Calculate Calculate Show that

Factor F3 to account for service stress in tensile reinforcement = 310/ s 1.5 Allowable L/d= N x K x F1 x F2 x F3 Actual L/d Allowable L/d State Deflection OK

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