Workout Example Design of doubly reinforced concrete beam

Required flexural strength M u  800kN m

Width of beam b  300  mm

Height of beam h  650  mm

Compressive strength of concrete f'c  25 MPa

Yeild strength of reinforcement fy  390  MPa

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Modulus of elasticity of steel Es  2  10 MPa

Materail Assumption

Strength reduction factors ϕ  0.9

Maximum Compressive Strain in concrete ε u  0.003

Minimum Strain in Steel ε t  0.005

Cover to transversal reinforcement CL  30mm

Number of reinforcement layers n  3

Spacing of reinforcement layer s  40mm

Diameter of tensile reinfocement D  25mm

Diameter of compression reinforcement D'  D

Diameter of stirrup reinforcement Dv  10mm

Materail Assumption

Solution
Equivalent depth factor

β1  0.85 if f'c  27.6MPa β1  0.85 (ACI.10.2.7.3)

0.65 if f'c  55.2MPa

f'c  27.6MPa
0.85  0.05 otherwise
6.9MPa
Tesion reinforcement ratio

f'c εu
ρmax  0.85 β1    0.0174 (ACI.10.3.5)
fy ε u  ε t

 f' 
 0.249MPa c 
 MPa 1.379MPa 
ρmin  max 
  0.00354
(ACI.10.5)

 fy fy


Distance from extreme compression to centroid of compression steel

D'
d'  CL  Dv  d'  52.5 mm
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Distance from extreme compression to extreme tension steel

d t  h   CL  Dv  
D
d t  597.5  mm
 2

Effective depth of beam

n  1
d  h   CL  Dv  D  s
n
 d  532.5  mm
 2 2 

Depth of the rectangular compression block

2 2 Mu
a  d  d  a  464.023  mm (ACI 10.2)
ϕ 0.85 f'c b

The maximum depth of the compression zone,

εu
cmax  d  cmax  199.688  mm (ACI 10.2.2)
εu  εt

The maximum allowable depth of the rectangular compression block,

amax  β1  cmax amax  169.734  mm (ACI.10.2.7.1)

The Beam  "Singly Reinfocement" if a  amax The Beam  "Doubly Reinforcement"

"Doubly Reinforcement" otherwise

Determination of steel area

For Singly reinforced beam

 amax 
M n1  0.85 f'c b  amax  d   M n1  484.364  kN m
 2 
Mu
= M n1  M n2
ϕ

Mu
M n2   M n1 M n2  404.525  kN m
ϕ

 cmax  d' 
f's  min Es ε u  fy f's  390  MPa (ACI 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4)
 cmax

M n2 2
A's  A's  22.855 cm
f's  0.85 f'c ( d  d')
M n1 2
As1  As1  27.745 cm
 amax 
fy   d  
 2 
M n2 2
As2  As2  21.609 cm
fy  ( d  d')

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As  As1  As2 As  49.354 cm

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π ( D mm)
Re-bars erea provide DB( n D)  n 
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2 2
Compression steel reinforcements A's  22.855 cm A's  5 DB 25  24.544 cm

2 2
Tensile steel reinforcements As  49.354 cm As  12 DB 25  58.905 cm
Verification of Streang reduction factor

 cmax  d' 
f's  min Es ε u  fy f's  390  MPa (ACI 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4)
 cmax

Compressive reinforcement  "Yielded" if f's = fy Compressive reinforcement  "Yielded"

"Not Yielded" otherwise

As1  fy
a  a  169.734  mm (ACI.10.2.7.1)
0.85 f'c b

a
c  c  199.688  mm
β1

Strain in compressive reinforcement

ε's  0.003   1 
d' 
 ε's  0.002
 c 

f's  min Es ε's fy  f's  390  MPa

Strain in tensile reinforcement

 dt  c
ε t     εu ε t  0.006
 c 

Section Behavior  "Tension controlled section" if ε t  0.005 (ACI. 9.3.2)

"Compression controlled section" if ε t  0.002

"Transition region" otherwise

Section Behavior  "Tension controlled section"

Strength reduction factors

ϕ  0.9 if ε t  0.005 ϕ  0.9

0.65 if ε t  0.002
(ACI. 9.3.2)
1.45  250  ε t
otherwise
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Moment capacity

ϕMn  ϕ  As fy  A's f's   d 

a 

    A's f's ( d  d')
2 
ϕMn  M u  1