Doubly reinforced beams

Compression steel added:

To provide strength To provide stirrup support Minimize moment-loading To reduce long term deflections

 If p < pb or p < p max the compression steel can be ignored and the max! capacity of a beam can be found through tension steel only If p " pb or p max the compression steel is not ignored

Tensile # for $ielding of Comp! steel at failure

If tensile p is less than this value it means that the compression steel is not yielding at failure pb then becomes the e%uation in the middle and f&s is less than fy

bo '