CONTINUOUS BEAMS

Moment Coefficients for Continuous Beams and Slabs

Limitations:
Adjacent spans should not differ by more than 20% of the shorter span.
Ratio of live load to dead load should not exceed 3.
The loads should be uniformly distributed
Positive moment:
End spans
a) If discontinuous end is unrestrained wL2/11
b) If discontinuous end is integral with support wL2/14
Interior spans wL2/16
Negative moment at exterior face of first interior support
Two spans wL2/9
More than two spans wL2/10
Negative moment at other faces of interior supports wL2/11
Negative moment at face of all supports
a) For slabs with spans less than 3 m wL2/12
b) Beams and girders where KColumn/KBeam > 8 wL2/12
Negative moment at interior faces of exterior supports for
members built integrally with their supports:
a) when the support is a spandrel beam or girder wL2/24
b) when the support is a column wL2/16
Shear in end members at first interior support 1.15wL/2
Shear at all other supports wL/2
where:
w = total unit load per unit length
L = clear span for positive moment and shear and
average of two adjacent spans for negative moment.
 Design of Continuous Beams – Design for Flexure
 
5.1 A one-way slab and beam framing system for an open floor space is shown. The slab thickness is
100 mm. The sizes of the columns are assumed to 0.40 x 0.40 m. Design beams 2B-1/1 and 2B-1/2 using
fc’ = 21 MPa, fy = 276 MPa and  ≤ 0.18fc’/fy at midspan to control deflection.
Solution:
 5.1.4 Live loads

5.1.5 Factored loads

5.1.6 Check ACI limitations

Compute steel areas
Mu Ru   Steel area Number of bars
(kN-m) MPa Required steel ratio,  As = bd 25 mm 
(mm2)
-M1 = 123.55 2.47 min < 0.00967 < max 1247 2.55, say 3 (1-layer)
+M2 = 141.20 2.83 min < 0.0112 < defl 1445 2.95, say 3 (1-layer)
-M3 = 228.76 4.58 min < 0.01954 < max 2521 5.15, say 6 (2-layers)
+M4 = 163.82 3.28 min < 0.01324 < defl 1708 3.49, say 4 (1-layer)
-M5 = 238.29 4.77 min < 0.02055 < max 2651 5.41, say 6 (2-layers)

-M1 = 123.55kN-m