WELCOME TO MY

PRESENTATION

AHSANULLAH
UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
IKHTIAR KHAN
10.01.03.106

UNIAXIAL COLUMN
DESIGN

WHAT IS COLUMN?

COLUMNS ARE DEFINED AS MEMBERS THAT

CARRY LOADS CHIEFLY IN COMPRESSION.

SIMULTANEOUSLY BENDING MOMENTS ARE

ALWAYS PRESENT AS WELL ABOUT ONE OR BOTH

AXES OF THE CROSS SECTION.

COLUMN LOAD TRANSFER FROM

BEAMS

TYPES OF COLUMN
SHORT COLUMN,
FOR WHICH LATERAL
BUCKLING NEED
NOT BE
CONSIDERED.

SLENDER COLUMN,
FOR
WHICH THE STRENGTH
MAY BE SIGNIFICANTLY
REDUCED BY LATERAL
DEFLECTION, SO
LATERAL BUCKLING NEED
TO BE CONSIDERED.

USUALLY MOST COLUMNS IN PRESENT

DAY PRACTICE ARE CONSIDERED AS
SHORT COLUMN.

WHAT IS UNIAXIALLY
WHEN A COLUMN IS
LOADED
SUBJECTED
TO EITHER COLUMN?
COMBINED AXIAL
COMPRESSION (P) AND
MOMENT (M) AS IN FIG-1 OR
ONLY AXIAL LOAD (P) APPLIED
AT AN ECENTRICITY e=(M/P)
AS IN FIG-2 SO THAT THE
COLUMN IS TRYING TO BEND
ABOUT ONLY ONE AXES OF
THE COLUMN CROSS SECTION
IS KNOWN AS UNIAXIALLY
LOADED COLUMN.

CROSS SECTION OF
UNIAXIALLY LOADED COLUMN

IN THIS
CASE,COLUMNS ARE
SUBJECT TO TENSION
OVER A PART OF THE
SECTION AND IF
OVERLOADED MAY
FAIL DUE TO TENSILE
YIELDING OF THE
STEEL ON THE SIDE
FARTHEST FROM THE
LOAD.

PROCESS TO BE FOLLOWED FOR

UNIAXIAL COLUMN DESIGN
SELECT TRIAL CROSS

SECTION DEIMENSION b
AND h.
CALCULATE THE RATIO

BASED ON REQUIRED
COVER DISTANCE TO
THE BAR CENTROIDS
AND SELECT THE
COLUMN DESIGN CHART.

 CALCULATE COLUMN PARAMETERS

Kn= Pu/fAg
Rn=Mu/fAgh
WHERE Ag=bh
= Ast/Ag
USING THOSE VALUES AND FROM THE

GRAPH REQUIRED REINFORCEMENT RATIO,

Pg CAN BE FOUND.
CALCULATE THE TOTAL STEEL AREA,

Ast=Pgbh.

ACI CODE PROVISION FOR

COLUMN DESIGN
TWO BASIC SAFETY CRITERIAS ARE

Pu Pn
Mu Mn
WHERE,
= 0.65 (FOR TIED COLUMNS)
= 0.70 (FOR SPIRALLY
REINFORCED
COLUMNS)

TYPICAL EXAMPLE
PROBLEM: IN A THREE-STOREY STRUCTURE, AN

EXTERIOR COLUMN IS TO BE DESIGNED FOR A

SEVICE DEAD LOAD OF 222 kips, MAXIMUM LIVE
LOAD OF 333 kips, DEAD LOAD MOMENT OF 162 ftkips AND LIVE LOAD MOMENT OF 232 ft-kips.
ARCHITECTURAL CONSIDERATION REQUIRE THAT A
RECTANGULAR COLUMN BE USED, WITH
DIMENSIONS b=20" AND h=25". FIND THE
REQUIREED COLUMN REINFORCEMENT FOR THE
CONDITION THAT FULL LIVE LOAD ACTS.
GIVEN THAT, fc= 4000 psi AND fy= 60,000 psi.

SOLUTION:
ACCORDING TO ACI CODE PROVISIONS,
ULTIMATE LOAD, Pu=1.2222+1.6333
=799 kips
ULTIMATE MOMENT, Mu=1.2162+1.6232
=566 kip-ft

ASSUMING BAR COVER 2.5

WE GET,

= (25-5)/25
= 0.8
Kn = Pu/fAg

= 799/
(0.654500)
= 0615
Rn =Mu/fAgh

=
56612/0.65450025

Pg=
0.034
Kn=
0.61
5

Rn=0.2

THUS, REQUIRED REINFORCEMENT IS

Ast=Pgbh
= 0.0342025
= 17 in
TEN NO.12 BAR WILL BE USED AS IN
FOLLOWING FIGURE.

THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
KIND
ATTENTION