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RC Pile Cap Design 1
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RC PILE CAP DESIGN (BS8110:PART1:1997)

Loaded width - x 2 Pile Cap, height h

e
ex
b 

P1 x P2 e

Pile Cap Design – Truss Method

Design Input - 2 Piles - With Eccentricity
Number of piles; N=2
ULS axial load; Fuls = 1600.0 kN
Characteristic axial load; Fchar = 1100.0 kN
Pile diameter;  = 400 mm
Pile spacing; s = 1000 mm
Eccentricity from centroid of pile cap; ex = 90 mm
The characteristic load in pile, 1 is; Fchar_pile_1 = Fchar  (s/2 - ex)/s = 451.0 kN
The characteristic load in pile, 2 is; Fchar_pile_2 = Fchar  (s/2 + ex)/s = 649.0 kN
Pile cap overhang ; e = 200 mm
Overall length of pile cap; L = s +  + 2  e = 1800 mm
Overall width of pile cap; b =  + 2  e = 800 mm
Overall height of pile cap; h = 500 mm
Dimension of loaded area; x = 400 mm; (parallel to pile cap)
Cover
Concrete grade; fcu = 35.0 N/mm2
Nominal cover; cnom = 30 mm
Tension bar diameter; Dt = 16 mm
Link bar diameter; Ldia = 12 mm
Depth to tension steel; d = h – cnom - Ldia - Dt/2 = 450 mm
Pile Cap Forces
Maximum compression within pile cap; Fc = max(Fc1, Fc2) = 1277.1 kN
Maximum tension within pile cap; Ft = max(Ft1, Ft2) = 860.1 kN
Compression In Pile Cap - Suggested Additional Check
Check compression diagonal as an unreinforced column, using a core equivalent to pile diameter
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ENG. GRD. CHEPKOCHEI SILVANUS Structural Elements Design ~Jan22 #2203J
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Compressive force in pile cap; Pc = 0.4  fcu    2/4 = 1759.3 kN

PASS Compression
Cl. 3.8.4.3

Tension In One Truss Member

Characteristic strength of reinforcement; fy = 500 N/mm2
Partial safety factor for strength of steel; ms = 1.15
Required area of reinforcement; As_req = Ft /(1/ms  fy) = ;1978; mm
Provided area of reinforcement; As_prov = Ast = 2011 mm2
Tension capacity of truss member; Pt = (1/ms  fy)  As_prov = ;874.2; kN
PASS Tension
Cl. 3.11.4.2

Max / Min Areas Of Reinforcement

Minimum area of tension steel; Ast_min = kt  Ac = 520 mm2
Maximum area of tension steel; Ast_max = 4 %  Ac = 16000 mm2
Area of tension steel provided OK
Cl. 3.12.6 & Table 3.25

Shear
Applied shear stress
Shear force pile 1; V1 = Fuls_pile_1 = 656.0 kN
Shear force pile 2; V2 = Fuls_pile_2 = 944.0 kN
Width of pile cap shear plane; bv = min( b, 3   ) = 800 mm
Shear stress pile 1; v1 = V1/(bv  d) = 1.82 N/mm2
Shear stress pile 2; v2 = V2/(bv  d) = 2.62 N/mm2
Allowable shear stress; vallowable = min ((0.8 N1/2/mm)  (fcu ), 5 N/mm2 ) = 4.73 N/mm2
Shear stress - OK
Cl. 3.4.5.2

Design concrete shear strength

Determine concrete shear strengths on the sections at distance / 5 inside face of each pile:
Cl. 3.11.4.3 & fig. 3.23
Shear stress - BS8110-1:1997 Table 3.8;
vc_25 = 0.79  r1/3  max(0.67, (400 mm/d)1/4)  1.0 N/mm2 / 1.25 = 0.51 N/mm2
Enhanced shear stress - Cl. 3.4.5.8 & fig. 3.5; vc = vc_25  ( min(fcu, 40 N/mm2 )/25 N/mm2 )1/3 = 0.57 N/mm2
av_1 = min(2  d, max(s/2 + ex - /2 + /5- x/2, 0.1 mm)) = 270 mm
av_2 = min(2  d, max(s/2 - ex - /2 + /5- x/2, 0.1 mm)) = 90 mm
Concrete shear strength - Case 1; vc_enh_1 = min( vallowable , 2  d  vc / av_1 ) = 1.88 N/mm2
Concrete shear strength - Case 2; vc_enh_2 = min( vallowable , 2  d  vc / av_2 ) = 4.73 N/mm2
Concrete shear strength - OK, no links reqd. for case 1
Concrete shear strength - OK, no links reqd. for case 2
Table 3.16
Note: If no links are provided, the bond strengths for PLAIN bars must be used in calculations for anchorage and lap lengths.
Cl. 3.12.8.3

Clear Distance Between Bars In Tension (Cl 3.12.11.2.4)

Bar spacing;
spacingbars = max( 0mm, (b- 2 (cadopt + Ldia) - Dt)/(Lnt - 1) - Dt) = 62 mm
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ENG. GRD. CHEPKOCHEI SILVANUS Structural Elements Design ~Jan22 #2203J
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Maximum allowable spacing; spacingmax = min((47000 N/mm)/fs, 300 mm) = 143 mm

Minimum allowable spacing;
Clear Distance Between Face Of Beam And Tension Bars (Cl 3.12.11.2.5)
Distance to face of beam;
Design service stress in reinforcement;
Max allowable clear spacing;
Max distance to face of beam;
Anchorage Of Tension Steel
Anchorage factor;
Type of lap length;
Type of reinforcement;
Minimum radius;
Minimum end projection;
Minimum anchorage length or lap length req’d;
Check anchorage length to cl. 3.12.9.4 (b);
Required minimum effective anchorage length;
Check minimum radius required on bend
Note that the bars must extend at least 4D past the bend
Force per bar at bend;
Edge bar centres;
Edge maximum allowable bearing stress;
Internal bar centres;
Internal maximum allowable bearing stress;
Design max allowable bearing stress;
Minimum radius required;
Deflection Check (Cl 3.4.6)
Redistribution ratio;
Design service stress in tension reinforcement;
Modification for tension reinforcement;
factortens = min( 2, 0.55 + (477 N/mm2 - fs)/(120  (0.9 N/mm2 + Ft /(bd )))) = 0.928
Modified span to depth ratio;
Span of pile cap for deflection check;
Actual span to depth ratio;
spacingmin = hagg + 5 mm = 25 mm
Bar spacing OK
Distedge = cadopt + Ldia + Dt/2 = 50 mm
fs = 2  fy  As_req /(3  As_prov  b) = 328.0 N/mm2
Spacingmax = min((47000 N/mm)/fs, 300 mm) = 143 mm
Distmax = Spacingmax /2 = 72 mm
Max distance to beam edge check - OK
factor =38
lap_type ="tens_lap"
reft_type = "def2_fy500"
rbar = 32 mm
Pbar = 130 mm
Ltable 3.27 = factor  Dt = 608 mm
Lcl. 3.12.9.4 = 12  Dt + d/2 = 417 mm
La = max(Ltable 3.27, Lcl. 3.12.9.4) = 608 mm
Fbt = Ft / Lnt = 86.0 kN
sext = cadopt + Dt = 46 mm
fbt_max_ext = 2  fcu / ( 1 + 2(Dt / sext )) = 41.28 N/mm2
sint = spacingbars + Dt = 78 mm
fbt_max_int = 2  fcu / ( 1 + 2(Dt / sint )) = 49.60 N/mm2
fbt_max = min(fbt_max_ext, fbt_max_int) = 41.28 N/mm2
rmin = max(rbar, Fbt /(fbt_max  Dt)) = 130.2 mm
Minimum radius of bend required = 130 mm
b = 1.0
fs = 2  fy  As_req /(3  As_prov  b) = 328.0 N/mm2
modfspan_depth = factortens  basicspan_depth = 18.6
Ls = 1000 mm
actualspan_depth = Ls /d = 2.22
PASS - Deflection