DESIGN OF SINGLY REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM

Prepared by Engr. RANDY G. POLICARPIO

PROBLEM:
Design a simply supported reinforced concrete beam with L = 4.5 m; DL (unfactored) = 18.5
kN/m; LL (unfactored) = 35.6 kN/m; f'c = 21 MPa; fy = 276 MPa. Use ρ = 0.5ρb

Given:
kN
L  4.5m  con c  23 .6 tie bar  10
3
m
kN
DL  18 .5 conccover  40
m f'c  21MPa

kN
LL  35 .6 fy  276MPa
m

Solution:

Factored Load:
kN
wu  1.2 DL  1.6 LL  79.16
m

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Design Moment:

2
wu  L
M u   20 0.3 74 kN  m
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Assume steel ratio:

 0.5b

1  0.85

  0.5 ( 0.85)   1 f'c   

600
 
  fy  fy  600 

  0.019

 fy 
R   fy   1  0.59  
 f'c

R  4.438

2 Mu
b d
 R

Take b  300   0.90

2
Mu ( 10 00)
d 
b  R

d  408.948 say d  434 mm

Required Steel Area:

2
As  b  d  2451.186 mm

Number of Bars:

db  32 mm

db
d'  40  10   66 mm h  d  d'  500 mm page 2
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 
Ab   d
4 b
 2  804.248 mm
2

As
n   3.04 8 say n  3
Ab

Check clear spacing of Bars:

Consider 1-layer
 
b  conccover  tie bar  2  ( n)  db  
ClearSpacing Bars   52 mm greater than 25 mm OK
n 1

Check Adequacy:
Solving for a:
Assume steel yields:
fs  fy

 c  a b ( n)    d 2  f
0.85f'  4 b  y
 

a  124.354 mm
Solving for c:
a
c   14 6.2 99 mm
1

Solving for f
s

fs  600 
d  c
  1179.915 fs  fy
 c 

Remarks  "steel has yielded"

Therefore assumption is correct.

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Check ductility requirement using NSCP 2015

dt  d

 dt  c 
 t  0.00 3  
 c 

 t  0.0058996  t  0.004

Remarks2  "section is ductile"

For the strength reduction factor, Φ

since  t  0.005 we have a tension-controlled section

Therefore   0.90

Solving for the factored moment strength,M

n (kN  m)

a  1 c  124.354 mm

  As  fy   d 
a 
M n 
  2

(n)   d 2 f  d  a 

4 b y  
M n    
 2 
 10
6 

M n  222.843 kN  m

Ultimate Moment:

Include weight of beam::

b  300 h  500  conc  23.6

(b )(h ) kN
W beam    con c  4
2 m
10 00


wu  1.2 DL  Wbeam  1.6(LL) 
kN
wu  83.408
m
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wu  L
M u   21 1.1 26 kN  m
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M n  Mu Remarks3  "Beam is adequate"

SKETCH:

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