a) Material Proerties Type : Column

fcu : 35 MPa (28 days compressive cube strength of concrete)

fy : 460 MPa (Characteristic steel strength)
3
wc : 25 kN/m (unit wt. of concrete)
Ec : K0+0.2fcu,28 (Modulus of elasticity of concrete) (BS 8110-2 Sec.7.2)
: 27000 MPa
0.5 Ec : 13500 MPa (Considered value for crack width calculation)
Es : 2.E+05 MPa (Modulus of elasticity of steel)
n : 14.8 (Modular ratio)

b) Section Proerties
Width b : 900 mm
height h : 275 mm
effective depth d : 213 mm
Clear cover to main bar (not to links)
C : 58 mm
2
Area of steel As : 672 mm
bar dia ф : 10 mm
bar spacing S : 90 mm

Distance from the point considered to the surface of nearest longitudinal bar
acr : √(45^2 + 63^2) - 5
: 72.42 mm

c) Loading Details
Maximum un factored BM at the cross section
Ms : 31.5 kNm
d) Crack Width
Allowable crack width : 0.2 mm

percentage of steel available

ρ : 672.3/(900 x 213) n : 14.8
: 0.0035
depth of neutral axis
2 0.5
x : d . [-n ρ + (n ρ) + 2 n ρ) ]
: 58.48 mm
Stress in reinforcement
fs : Ms/[As (d - x/3)]
: 242.1 MPa
Stress in concrete
fc : fs As/[0.5 b x)]
: 6.186 MPa
Strain at soffit of concrete section
ε1 : fs Es (h-x)/(d-x)
: 0.0017
average strain at the level where the cracking is being considered

( )( )
= (BS 8110-2 equation-13)
3 ( )
where,
: 0.0010 a' : 275 mm

Design surface crack width

3
=
1 + 2( ) (BS 8110-2 equation-12)

wc : 0.195 mm
< 0.2 mm, Hence o.k.