CAPACITY OF ECCENTRICALLY LOADED SHORT COLUMN

ShortCol
Copyright 2000

Material Properties

Column Interaction Diagram

Units: kN, kN-M

Yakov Polyakov, PE

yakov@yakpol.net
f'c =

35.00 MPa

Ec =

28,001 MPa

fy =

414.00 MPa

Es =

200,000 MPa

b =

0.9

c =

0.7

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6000
Units

Rectangular Concrete Section

Height H =
500.00 mm
Width B =
600.00 mm
s =
1.07%

English

7000

5,677

5000

Metric

Maximum Force: Pu(max) = 0.8[0.85f'cbh+(fy-f'c)As] =

4000

5,677 kN

Ballanced Failure
Mb =
Pb =

540 kN-M
2242 kN

Mb =

-529 kN-M

Pb =

2929 kN

3000
2000

Steel
Layer No.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Steel
Area
As
mm^2
1100.00
2100.00

Dist. from
bottom
Ys
mm
100.00
450.00

Ys , m m

Section Reinforcing

600
500

400

-600

300

-400

-200

0
-1000

200

-2000

100
As, m m ^2

0
0

Interaction Diagram
Pn
Mn

1000

500

1000

1500

Factored Loads
Pu
Mu

2000

2500

200

400

600

a
1
Pu

403.2121 mm
0.80

Sum of Forces = 0
-0.85f'c(ab)= -7197.33539 kN
(As*fs)= -912.90461 kN

Sum of Moments = 0
(Asfs(Ys-h/2)) =

145

-0.85f'c(ab)(a/2-h/2) =

348.3

Pu/ 8600.917714 kN

Mu/

493.8

6020.6 kN

Mu

0.1f'cbh =

345.7 kN-M
0.7

Total

490.678

1050 kN
Pu(max) = 0.8[0.85f'cbh+(fy-f'c)As] =

(As)=

5677.2 kN

3200.00 mm^2
Pu(min) = (fyAs) =

Force Converter

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

As
mm^2
1100
2100

As

Dist from Strain in

Bottom Reinf. Bar
s
Ys
mm
400
50
500
500
500
500
500
500
500
500

Ys

-0.000630
-0.002704
-0.000038
-0.000038
-0.000038
-0.000038
-0.000038
-0.000038
-0.000038
-0.000038

Stress in
Reinf. Bar
fs
MPa
-96.3451001
-384.25
22.13112483
22.13112483
22.13112483
22.13112483
22.13112483
22.13112483
22.13112483
22.13112483

0
1100.0

100
100.0

0
2100.0

450
450.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

1000000

-1192.32 kN
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Units
SI
CurrentUnitsSI

Steel
Area

1000

MomentConverter

H
0
0
2310
2310
0

0
500
500
0
0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

0
0.0

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