Tutorial 1

Design for Catenary Action

Base on the following design data, you are to come out with your own design calculations for achieving catenary action design in the event of notional removal of columns in buildings. State any design assumptions made in the course of your calculations (you may base your catenary computations on a typical 1m width of 150mm thick slab and 200mm thick slab). Design information 1. Design Code of Practice A. B. Design Code to CP 65 Partial load safety factor to Clause 2.4.3.2, CP 65, Part 1:1999 for the design of building structures for robustness. (i) Dead Load = 1.05 (ii) Live Load = 1/3 of imposed loads Partial material safety factor to Clause 2.4.4.2, CP 65, Part 1:1999 for the design of building structures for robustness. (i) Concrete = 1.3 (fcu = 30 N/mm2) (ii) Steel = 1.0 (fy = 460 N/mm2)

C.

2. A.

Design Load Dead Load per m2 (i) 150 mm thick concrete slab = 3.6 kN/m2 (ii) 200 mm thick concrete slab = 4.8 kN/m2 (iii) Floor finish or floor screed = 1.2 kN/m2 2 (iv) Average load per m for the light- = 1.2 kN/m2 weight partition and solid blocks with plastering Live load per m2 (i) Dwelling unit = 1.5 kN/m2

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Equations used for catenary action (i) For UDL - (see Equation 1) (ii) For single point load (see Equation 2) Dr. Wilford and Dr. Yus paper informed that the lower bound solution from test results gave crit = 0.075L to 0.1L. Therefore,

based on the lower bound crit 0.1L (i.e. 1/10 of the overall resultant span length) in the design = 1/10 x 7500mm = 750mm (use 800mm in computations) D. Tension lap length ()

= 1.25(52 ) = 65
E. Schematic Diagram showing partition wall load and the notional removal of columns

Columns to be removed

150

150

L1

L1

Resultant Span , L = 7.5m