Design of Wall Footing

Author Dr. H.S.Rai

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Load from wall P 100 kN/m
Thickness of wall tw 200 mm
SBC qa 250 kN/m^2 @ 1 m below
ground
Concrete Grade fck 25
Steel Grade fy 500
Unit weight of ws 18 kN/m^3 Angle of 30
Soil Internal
friction
Assume length of Lw 8 m
wall
Clear Cover cc 30 mm
Side Cover sc 30 mm
Dia of main steel diaMain 16 mm
Dia of distribution diaDist 10 mm
steel
Unit weight of wm 18 kN/m^3
masonary
Unit weight of wc 25 kN/m^3
reinforced
concrete
Design a RC wall fooring for a 200 mm thick masonary wall to carry a load of 100
kN/m. The allowable soil pressure, qa is 250 kN/m^2. Assume M25 concrete, Fe 500
steel, and unit weight of soil =18 kN/m^3.
Values with yellow background may be altered
Solution:

Given
Load P 100 kN/m
Thickness of wall tw 200 mm
Allowable soil pr. qa 250 kN/m
fck 25 N/mm^2
fy 500 N/mm^2
Ec 25000 N/mm^2
Es 200000 N/mm^2
xu,lim / d 0.46
Mu,lim / (b d^2) Q 3.34 N/mm^2
Self weight of footing 10 % (Assumed)
Required width of footing 0.44 m using: load / qa
Provide width of footing 0.45 m 39.98161765
DoF using Rankine’s formula 0.7 m
DoF adopted 1 m
Weight of footing 9.5 < 10 Ok
Upward net pressure 222.2 kN/m^2
Factored upward net pr., qu 333.3 kN/m^2

Take trial thickness of footing, 450 mm

D
Effective depth, deff 412 mm

Distance of critical section for 175 mm

BM from free end
Mu,x 5.1 kNm
Ast required (0.001%) 28.5 mm^2
Min steel @ .12% 243 mm^2
Required spacing for 16 mm 827.4 mm
dia bars
Provided spacing 151 mm
Steel provided 1331.5 mm^2
Steel provided (%) 0.04
Steel provided 1331.5 not < 243 Ok
Distance of critical section for -287 mm At a distance d
Shear force from free end from face of
wall
Vu,x -95.66 kN
N/mm^2 -0.232 < 0.377 Ok
Development length / dia 40
ld for fully stresses 640 mm
ld for actual stress 13.6988359 mm
ld required 13.6988359 < 95 Ok

Min d (mm) required 39 < 412 Ok

Bearing stress
A1 450000 mm^2
A2 1600000 mm^2
A1/A2 Actual 0.28125 Can’t > 2
A1/A2 Used in calculation 0.28125
Bearing stress fbr for footing 0.75 < 3.1640625 Ok
(N/mm^2)
Distribution steel
Steel required for width of 243 mm^2
footing

No. of bars required 1

At a spacing about #DIV/0! mm c/c

Design results
Overall depth 450 mm
Main steel #16@151
Distribution steel 1 - #18 #DIV/0!