Seat Number: _______
CONCRETE
Second Semester A.Y. 2023-2024
Quiz 4: Shear and Torsion
Name: _____________________________________________________
Section: _______________ Student Number: ________________
General Instructions: (1) Fill out all the necessary information
and all the needed answers. (2) Erasures on this answer sheet
will be considered incorrect. (3) Final answers should be 4
decimal places, but continuous solving is required. (4) All
answers must be complete with units. (5) All diagrams should
be complete with label. (6) All answers for length units should
be in meters, dimension units in mm, forces in kN, and
moments in kN-m. Round down spacing of stirrups to nearest
multiples of 10 mm. SIT 1 to 3– 4 points each.
Situation 1: The figure shows a floor plan which is designed to
carry a live load of 4.8 kPa and a dead load of 4.9 kPa
(including weight of slab, beam, ceiling, partition, floor, etc.).
The slab thickness is 100mm. The beam has a width of 250mm
and has a depth of 350mm below the slab. The girder has a
width of 350 mm below the slab. The girder has a width of
350 mm and a depth of 400 mm. Use 70 mm covering from
center of steel reinforcements. f'c = 20.7 MPa, fy = 415 MPa,
fyt = 275 MPa.
_________________ 1. Clear span of beam BE?
_________________ 2. Effective depth of beam BE?
_________________ 3. Factored uniformly distributed load along
beam BE?
_________________ 4. Assuming that the beams are simply
supported, determine the critical factored shear force at the
critical section of beam BE?
_________________ 5. Factored moment Mu at the critical
section of beam BE?
_________________ 6. Nominal concrete shear strength of
beam BE?
_________________ 7. Nominal steel shear strength of beam BE?
_________________ 8. Is the section adequate?
_________________ 9. Spacing of stirrups if 10mm diameter
lateral ties are used?
Situation 2: The cross-section is loaded by Vu = 223 kN and
a torque Tu = 40 kN-m. f’c = 20.7 MPa, fy = 415 MPa. Use
40mm clear cover on all sides.
Date: __________________
_________________ 10. Gross area of cross section in mm2?
_________________ 11. Perimeter of the cross section in mm?
_________________ 12. Maximum value of torque where
additional reinforcements for tor
sion is not required.
_________________ 13. Nominal concrete shear strength?
_________________ 14. Nominal steel shear strength?
_________________ 15. Av/s?
_________________ 16. Area enclosed by the center of the
transversed reinforcements?
_________________ 17. At/s?
_________________ 18. Spacing of transverse reinforcements?
_________________ 19. Perimeter enclosed by the center of the
transversed reinforcements?
_________________ 20. Additional area of longitudinal steel
required for torsion?
Situation 3: The hollow box beam of a certain building
construction is reinforced for shear with 10mm bar. The beam
carries a factored concentrated load Pu = 134 kN at a point
3m from the left end of the simply supported beam, and a
total uniform factored load of Wu = 14 kN/m distributed
throughout the entire span. f'c = 20.7 MPa, fy = 414.6 MPa,
fyt = 270 MPa.
__________________ 21. bw?
_________________ 22. Nominal shear strength of concrete
using simplified analysis?
_________________ 23. Distance from the left support where
the stirrups can be omitted?
_________________ 24. Shear strength of stirrups when stirrups
are spaced d/2 mm apart.
_________________ 25. Factored shear force of the beam with
stirrups spaced at d/2 mm apart.