UNIVERSITY OF CEBU-MAIN CAMPUS

CIVIL ENGINEERING REVIEW

PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

Reinforced Concrete Design

SITUATION: A 6 m long simply supported concrete beam has a width of 310 mm and an overall depth of 480
mm. The beam. Is reinforced with four (4) 28 mm diameter bars at the bottom and two (2) 28 mm diameter bars
on top. Steel cover measure from the center of the bar is 70 mm. fc’=28 MPa and fy=415 MPa. Total dead load
including beam weight is 22 kN/m.

1. What is the total depth of compression block in mm?

2. What is the design strength of the section using a reduction factor of 0.90?

3. What additional concentrated live load can the beam carry at the midspan?

SITUATION: A reinforced concrete beam has a width of 300 mm and an effective depth of 600 mm.
Compression reinforcement if needed will be placed at a depth of 60 mm below the top. If fc’=30 MPa, fy=414
MPa, and if the beam is to resist an ultimate moment of 650 kN-m.

4. Compute the maximum steel ratio using NSCP 2015.

5. Compute the minimum steel ratio using NSCP 2015.

6. Determine the steel area reinforcement.

SITUATION: A doubly reinforced concrete beam section has an effective depth of 625 mm and a width of 350
mm. It is reinforced with compressive bars at the top having an area of 1500 sq. mm and 4970 sq. mm tension bars
at the bottom with a steel covering of 62.5 mm both on top and bottom bars. Balanced steel ratio = 0.0285,
fc’=27.58 MPa and fy=413.4 MPa. Use NSCP 2015.

7. Compute the depth of the compression block.

8. Compute the ultimate moment capacity of the beam.

9. Compute the safe concentrated live load that the beam could carry at its midspan if it has a service dead load of
30 kN/m on a span of 6m.