IRC:112-2011 CODE OF PRACTICE FOR CONCRETE ROAD BRIDGES INDIAN ROADS CONGRESS 2011IRC :112-2011 CODE OF PRACTICE FOR CONCRETE ROAD BRIDGES Published by: INDIAN ROADS CONGRESS: Kama Koti Marg, Sector 6, R.K. Puram, New Delhi - 110 022 NOVEMBER - 2011 Price % 1000 (Packing & postage charges extra)IRC 3142-2011 First Published November, 2011 ication shall be reproduced, translated or (all Rights Reserved. No part of this pub transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the Indian Roads Congress) endments to this document which may be considered necessary time would be published by the IRC in its periodical “Indian @ shall be considered as effective and as part ified therein) (The Official am | from time to | Highways’. Thes of the Code etc. from the date speci Printed at : Abhinav Prints, New Delhi (1000 Copies)IRC 2112-2011 PERSONNEL OF THE BRIDGES SPECIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS COMMITTEE Sinha, AV. (Convenor) . Puri, S.K. (Co-Convenor) Sharma, Arun Kumar (Member- Secretary) v e Agarwal, K.N. Alimehandani, C.R. oe Banerjee, AK. Banerjee, TB. No 2 Basa, Ashok 2 Bandyopadhyay, Dr. TK 10. Bandyopadhyay, Dr. N. 11, Bongirwar, PL 12. Bhasin, PC. 13, Chakraborty, Prof. S.S. 14. Chakrabarti, S.P. 15. Dhodapkar, A.N 16. Gupta, Mahesh 17. Ghoshal, A. 18. Joglekar, S.G. 19. Kand, Dr. C.V. 20. Koshi, Ninan 21, Kumar, Prafulla 22. Kumar, Vijay 23. Kumar, Dr. Ram (As on 25" October 2010) Director General (RD) & Spl. Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, New Delhi ‘Addl, Director General, Minstry of Road Tansport & Highways, New Delhi Chief Engineer (B) S&R, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, New Delhi Members Director General (W) (Retd.), CPWD, Ghaziabad Chairman & Managing Director, STUP Consultants Ltd., Mumbai ‘Member (Tech.), (Retd.) NHAI, New Delhi Chief Engineer (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, New Delhi Director (Tech.), B. Engineers & Builders Ltd., Bhubaneswar Joint Director General (Retd.), Institute for Steel Dev. and Growth, Kolkata Director, STUP Consultants Ltd., (P) Ltd. New Delhi Advisor, L&T, Mumbai ADG (B) (Retd.) MOST, New Delhi Managing Director, Consulting Engg. Services (I) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi Consultant, Span Consutants (P) Ltd., Noida Chief Engineer (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, New Delhi Executive Director (B&S), RDSO, Lucknow Director and Vice-President, STUP Consulants Ltd., Kolkata Director (Engg. Core), STUP Consultants Ltd., Mumbai Chief Engineer, (Retd.), MP PWD, Bhopal Director General (RD) & Addi. Secy., MOST (Retd.), Gurgaon Director General (RD) & AS (Retd.), MORT&H, Noida E-in-C (Retd.), UP PWD, Noida Chief General Manager, NHAI, New Delhi “@IRC :112-2011 24. Kumar, Ashok 25. Manjure, PY. 26. Mukherjee, M.K. 27. Narain, A.D 28. Ninan, R.S. 29, Patankar, V.L. 30. Rajagopalan, Dr. N. 31. Raina, Dr. V.K. 32, Rao, M. 33. Roy, Dr. B.C. 34. Sharma, R.S. 35. Sharan, G. 36. Sinha, N.K. 37. Saha, Dr. GP. 38. Tandon, Prof, Mahesh 39. Velayutham, V. 40. Vijay, PB. 41, Diretor & Head 42. Addl Director General 1. President, IRC 2. Director General (RD) & Spl. Secretary 3, Secretary General 4, Merani, N.V. 2. Bagish, Dr. B.P. Chief Engineer, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways., New Delhi Director, Freyssinet Prestressed Concrete Co. Lid., Mumbai Chief Engineer (Retd.), MORT&H, New Delhi Director General (RD) & AS (Retd.), MORT&H, Noida Chief Engineer (Retd.), MORT&H, New Delhi Member (Tech.), NHAI, New Delhi Chief Technical Advisor, L&T, Chennai B-13, Sector-14, Noida-201301 (UP) ‘A-181, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi Executive Director, Consulting Engg. Services (I) Pvt. Lid., New Delhi Past Secretary General, IRC, New Delhi Director General (RD) & SS, (Retd.), MORT&H, New Delhi Director General (RD) & SS, (Retd.), MORT&H, New Delhi Exeutive Director, Construma Consultants (P) Ltd. Mumbai Managing Director, Tandon Consultants (P) Ltd., New Delhi Director General (RD) & SS, (Retd.), MORT&H, New Delhi Director General (W) (Retd.),CPWD, New Delhi Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi Directorate General Border Roads, New Delhi Ex-Officio Members Liansanga, Engineer-in-Chief and Secretary, PWD, Mizoram, Aizawl (Sinha, A.V.) Ministry of Road Trasport & Highways, New Delhi (indoria, R.P, Indian Roads Congress, New Delhi Corresponding Members Principal Secretary (Retd.), Maharashtra PWD, Mumbai C-2/2013, Opp. D.P.S., Vasant Kunj, New DelhiSECTION 1 CONTENTS Section 1 Contents Personnel of the Bridges Specifications and Standards Committee Section 2 Introduction Section 3 Definitions and Notations 3.1 Terms and Definitions 3.2 Notations Section 4 General 4.1 Scope 4.2 UnderlyingAssumptions Section 5 Basis of Design 5.1 Aims of Design 5.2. Limit State Philosophy of Design 5.3. Limit States 5.4 Actions and their Combinations 5.5 Representative Values of Properties of Materials 5.6 Analytical Methods to Evaluate Behaviour of Structures 5.7 Design Based on Full Scale Testing 5.8 Durability Aspects Section 6 Material Properties and their Design Values 6.1 General 6.2 Untensioned Steel Reinforcement 6.3 Prestressing Steel 6.4 Concrete Section 7 Analysis 7.1 General Provisions 7.2 Analyses for Serviceability Limit States 7.3 Analyses for Ultimate Limit States 7.4 Torsional Effects 7.5 Combined Global and Local Effects 7.6 — Structures and Structural Frames 7.7 Composite Concrete Construction 1) IRC :112-2011 Page No. 16 16 16 18 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 25 28 28 28 31 35, 50 50 53 54 55 55 55 58IRC :112-2011 7.8 — Structural Effects of Time-Dependent Properties of Concrete 7.9 Prestressed Members and Structures 7.10 Design and Detailing for Curved Tendons in Thin ‘Sections 7.11 Special Load Transferring Devices Section 8 Ultimate Limit State of Linear Elements for Bending and Axial Forces 81 Scope 82. Strain and Stress Distribution at Ultimate Limit State 8.3 Biaxial Bending Section 9 Ultimate Limit State of Two and Three Dimensional Elements for Out of Plane and in Plane Loading Effects Scope (One-Way and Two-Way Slabs and Walls Sub-elements of Box Structures General Solution for Two-Way Slabs, Walls and Shell Elements Section 10 Ultimate Limit State of Shear, Punching Shear and Torsion 10.1. Scope 10.2 Design of Flexural Members for Shear 10.3 Design Method 40.4. Design for Punching Shear 10.5 Torsion Section 11 Ultimate Limit State of Induced Deformation 11.1 General 11.2 Simplified Slenderness Criteria 41.3. Non-linear Analysis of Structure and Elements 11.4 Lateral Instability of Slender Beam Section 12 Serviceability Limit State 12.1 General 12.2 Stress Limitation 12.3 Limit State of Cracking 12.4 Limit State of Deflection Section 13 Prestressing Systems 13.1. General 43.2. Anchorages for Post Tensioning Systems13.3 Mechanical Couplers 13.4 Sheathing Ducts and Joints 13.5 End Block Design and Detailing 13.6 Protective Grouting 43.7. Protection of Post Tensioned Tendons and Anchorages Section 14 Durability 14.1. General 44.2 Common Mechanisms Leading to the Deterioration of Concrete Structures 140 14.3. Design for Durability 44.4. Additional Provisions for Specific Mechanisms of Deterioration Section 15 Detailing: General Requirements 15.1 General 15.2. Reinforcing Steel 15.3. Prestressing Units 15.4 Coated Steels Section 16 Detailing Requirements of Structural Members 16.1 General 16.2 Columns of Solid Section 16.3. R.C. Walls and Walll Type Piers 16.4 Hollow Piers/Columns 16.5 Beams 166 Solid Slabs 16.7 Cotbels 16.8 Articulations 16.9 Deep Beams 16.10 Members with Unbonded Tendons 16.11 Concentrated Forces 16.12 Forces Associated with Change in Direction 16.13 Indirect Supports 16.14 Anchorage Zones for Post Tensioning Forces Section 17, Ductile Detailing for Seismic Resistance 17.14 General 17.2. Concrete Piers/Columns 17.3 Foundations Section 18 Materials, Quality Control and Workmanship 18.1 General 18.2 Untensioned Stee! IRC 112-2011 134 134 136, 138 139 140 140 141 144 147 147 147, 162 169 474 171 474 173 174 175 181 185, 186 186, 187, 187 189 190 190 192 192 192 199 200 200