REVIEW EVALUATION 6

Reinforced Concrete Design

SITUATION 1:
A rectangular reinforced concrete beam having a width of 200 mm and an
effective depth of 500 mm is subjected to a service moment of 120 kN-m. The
beam is reinforced with four 25-mm diameter bars. The modular ratio n = 8. Use
working stress design.
1. What is the distance of the neutral axis from the top of the beam?
2. What is the stress in the concrete?
3. What is the stress in the steel?
SITUATION 2:
A decorative concrete beam with a tubular section is simply supported on a span
of 4.5 m. It has an outside diameter of 600 mm and an inside diameter of 300
mm. Weight of the beam is 4.84 kN/m.
4. What is the cracking moment of the beam if the maximum tensile stress in
concrete for bending is 3.18 MPa?
5. In addition to its weight, what concentrated load at the midspan can the beam
safely carry before it cracks?
6. If the 300 mm Φ hollow were replaced by a 300 mm hollow square section,
calculate the cracking moment.
SITUATION 3:
A rectangular reinforced concrete beam having a width of 300 mm is reinforced
for tension only. The beam carries a factored moment of 540 kN m. Concrete
strength is fc’ = 28 MPa and steel yield strength fy = 280 MPa.
7. What is the balanced steel ratio?
8. What is the minimum effective depth using a steel ratio equals to half the
balanced steel ratio?
9. What is the minimum effective depth using the maximum steel ratio permitted
by the code?
SITUATION 4:
A beam section is limited to a width b = 250 mm and a total depth of 550 mm.
The beam is subjected to a factored moment of 356 kN m. fc’ = 20.73 MPa, fy =
346 MPa, ρb = 0.027. Use 70 mm concrete to the centroid of steel reinforcement.
10. Determine the ultimate moment capacity that is allowed for the section as
singly reinforced.
11. Determine the total required area for reinforcement for tension if compression
steel is needed
12. Determine the required area of reinforcement for compression? (Challenging)
SITUATION 7:
A spiral column carries a dead load of 1070 kN and a live load of 980 kN. If fc’ =
27.50 MPa and fy = 413.50 MPa. Using a steel ratio of 0.03.
19. Which of the following gives the value of the diameter of spiral column?
20. Which of the following gives the number of 28 mm diameter reinforcement?
21. Which of the following gives the possible spacing of the 10 mm diameter
spiral?
SITUATION 8:
A short column is subjected to a factored axial load Pu = 3790 kN, fc’ = 27.6 MPa
and fy = 414.6 MPa.
22. Assume moments are negligible, what is the minimum gross sectional area in
mm2 required if it is a tied column?
23. If the column is 450mm x 450mm square tied column, compute the maximum
moment in kN-m that can act without affecting the design for pure axial loading.
24. If the column is 450mm x 450mm square tied column, determine the required
area of steel needed in mm2.
SITUATION 9:
A 6m long cantilever beam 250 mm x 600 mm carries a uniformly distributed
dead load of 5 kN/m (including beam weight) and a concentrated live load of 18
kN at the free end. The beam is pretensioned with 12 mm diameter strand
causing a final prestress force of 540 kN.
25. What is the resulting stress at the bottom fiber at the free end if the
prestressing strands are located at the neutral axis of the beam?
26. What is the resulting stress at the top fiber at the fixed end if the prestressing
strands are located 100 mm above the neutral axis of the beam?
27. What is the distance of the prestressing strands above the neutral axis of the
beam such that the resulting stress at the top fiber at the fixed end is zero?
28. The minimum straight extension of a 900 hook for deformed bar in tension is:
29. The value of λ for sand lightweight concrete is:
30. The value of λ for all lightweight concrete is:

SITUATION 5:
A doubly reinforced concrete beam has a maximum effective depth of 630 mm
and is subjected to a total factored moment of 1062 kN-m including its own
weight. Fc’ =28 MPa, Fy = 413.4 MPa. Use 62.5 mm steel covering.
13. Determine the width of the beam using approximate proportion of d and b
equals to 1.80.
14. Determine the reinforcement for compression in mm2.
15. Determine the total reinforcement for tension in mm2.

SITUATION 6:
A column section shown is reinforced with 8 – 20 mm bars with a clear concrete
cover of 40 mm for the 10 mm ties. The column is subjected to the following data:
MU = 400 kN m
VU = 360 kN (Parallel to the longer dimension)
NU = 460 kN
Use fc’ = 28 MPa and fy = 415 MPa

16. Determine the factored shear force (Vu) that the column can be subjected if
the nominal strength provided by the ties is 210 kN. Use simplified calculation for
allowable concrete shear strength.
17. Determine the nominal shear strength of concrete if the 10 mm ties are
spaced 220 mm on center if Vu = 360 kN.
18. Determine the required spacing of the 10 mm lateral ties for a factored shear
load of VU= 360 kN.