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Client

Brisbane Office

Project

Riverpoint Apartments

Subject

Wide Beam 2400x650 - Building 4

Date:
Job No:

Q275 84

12-Dec-07

Sheet No:

DBT

By:

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Client:

Brisbane Office

Project:

Riverpoint Apartments

Subject:

Wide Beam 2400x650 - Building 4

Date:
Job No.:

Q275 84

12-Dec-07

Sheet No.:
By:

DBT

Title :

Reinforced Concrete Beam Design

General Description :

Calculates reinforcement requirements for a singly reinforced rectangular concrete beam or slab in flexure.
Calculates the ultimate moment bending capacity of the section for a given steel arrangement (1 or 2 layers of tension
reinforcement).
Considers all minimum reinforcement and spacing requirements to AS3600.
The spreadsheet is particularly applicable to slabs where minimum reinforcement requirements may govern.

Limitations :

For rectangular sections only.

Does not design for shear and shear reinforcement.
Ignores the effects of compression steel in bending capacities.
Does not allow for prestress in calculating M uo.min & A st.min.
Not suitable for members in tension.

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Codes / Theoretical Basis : AS3600 - 2001 (Incorporating Amendment 1, 2002 and Amendment 2, 2004)
Warner, Rangan, Hall & Faulkes, 'Concrete Structures', Longman, Melbourne, 1999
Nomenclature :

Symbols and notation as used in AS3600.

Input :

White text on black background.

Section geometry, cover, material properties
Bending moments M*, M s*, M s.1*
Number & bar diameter for 1 or 2 layers of tension reinforcement
Reinforcement grade

Output :

Boxed cells with green background.

Number, size and spacing of reinforcing bars
Moment capacity Mu
Checks for minimum reinforcement and spacing

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Author :

Allan Ross, David Chaffey

Office :

Brisbane

Date :

8-Jun-04

Verifier :

Andrew Whiting

Office :

Brisbane

Date :

7-Nov-04

Checker :

Jim Durack

Office :

Brisbane

Date :

10-Nov-05

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Client

Brisbane Office

Project

Riverpoint Apartments

Subject

Wide Beam 2400x650 - Building 4

Date:
Job No:

Q275 84

12-Dec-07

Sheet No:

DBT

By:

Reinforced Concrete Beam Design

Geometry

Material Properties

Width, b

2,400 mm

Depth, D

650 mm

Bottom cover to ligs or reo as appropriate

35 mm

Side cover to ligs (zero if none)

35 mm

d2 d1
D

Applied actions
Ultimate strength moment, M*
Service moment for (G + Q) M

32 MPa

2,400 kg/m3

f sy

500 MPa

Nominal aggregate size

20 mm

Lig diameter

12 mm

2000.0 kNm
s.1

0.8

f'c

500.0 kNm

Short-term service moment for (G + s Q) M s*

500.0 kNm
Ast required for M* < Mu

Ast.required

9769 mm2

Proposed reinforcement arrangement

Bar diameter
Upper

32 mm

Spacer

50 mm

Lower

32 mm

Suggested bar numbers & sizes for limit state requirement M* < Mu

Number of bars
18.00

Bar size
No. of bars

12

16

20

24

28

32

36

40

86.5

48.8

31.1

21.7

15.9

12.2

9.6

7.8

22.0
Ast.provided

32,160 mm2

davg

550 mm

Design assessment and decision making

Limit state strength requirements (Cl 8.1.2)

Percentage

Ast required for M* < Mu

Ast.required

Check Mu = 0.8Astfsydavg(1- 0.6Astfsy / (bdavgf'c)) = M* with As =Ast.provided

Check ku calculated using Ast.required

9769 mm2

Mu 5459.2 kNm
ku

M* < Mu OK

273%

ku < 0.4 OK

242%

Ast.provided > Ast.min OK

1168%

fscr.1 < 0.8fsy OK

1216%

fscr < Table 8.6.1 value OK

966%

0.166

Ductility requirement (Cl 8.6.1(a) and 8.1.4.1)

Ast.min to ensure that Mu > 1.2 x Mcracking

Ast.min

2754 mm2

Check that yield does not occur at the serviceability moment assessed using unity load factors (Cl 8.6.1(d))
fscr.1 = M*s.1 y / I cr

Steel stress using linear elastic analysis of cracked section

33 MPa

Check crack control as measured by the steel stress for short term serviceability moment (G+ sQ) (Cl 8.6.1(d))
fscr = M*s y / I cr

Steel stress using linear elastic analysis of cracked section

33 MPa

Check cover and spacing requirements (Cl 8.6.1(b))

Cover not to exceed 100 mm and spacing not to exceed 300 mm

OK

Check clear spacing and compare to 'normal' constructibility limits 2.5 x nominal aggregate size and bar diameter
Clear spacing, s
Check the proposed reinforcement meet all AS3600 requirements

103 mm

s > (2.5xAgg) and db OK

206%

YES

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Client

Brisbane Office

Project

Riverpoint Apartments

Subject

Wide Beam 2400x650 - Building 4

Date:
Job No:

Q275 84

12-Dec-07

Sheet No:

DBT

By:

Calculations
Preliminary calculations (Cl 6.1 & 8.1)
f cm =

1.1 f'c + 4

39 MPa

E cj =

0.043 1.5 ( f cm )0.5

31,654 MPa

Es / E c

f'cf =

0.6 ( f'c )0.5

0.85 - 0.007 ( f'c - 28 )

0.82

b D2 / 6

169.0E+6 mm3

n=

Z gross =

6.3
3 MPa
limits 0.65 - 0.85

d1=

505 mm

d2=

587 mm

A st 2 17,688 mm2

550 mm

Total A st 32,160 mm2

d av = ( d 1 A st1 + d 2 A st2 ) / A st.total

A st 1 14,472 mm2

Strength requirements (Cl 8.1.3)

Requirements based on ultimate strength moment M* of 2000 kNm and an average depth layer of steel
A st = ( 1 - (1 - ( 2.4 M* / ( b d av2 f'c ))0.5 ) b d av

9,769 mm2

2,754 mm2

103 mm

1.2 f sy / f'c
Minimum strength requirements (Cl 8.1.4.1)
Deemed to comply A st.min =

0.22 b d ( D / d )2 f'cf / fsy

Steel stress checks (Cl 8.6.1 (iv) & WRHF)

lower bar spacing = 2400 - 2 ( 35 + 12 + 32 / 2 )

main bar spacing < 300mm o.k.

21

side cover <100 o.k.

Allowable post cracking steel stress

Table 8.6.1(A) f s =

- 173 x ln ( d b ) + 760

160 MPa

Table 8.6.1(B) f s =

- 0.8 x bar spacing + 400

318 MPa

0.5 b d n2

n A st ( d - d n )

dn

Cracked section elastic neutral axis

WRHF eq 5.20
Icr =

Cracked section second moment of area

b d n3

WRHF eq 5.22

+ n A st ( d - d n )2

max

318 MPa

232 mm

30.54E+9 mm4

33 MPa

318 MPa

33 MPa

400 MPa

Calculated fscr due to Ms*

Ms* n y
I cr
Limit = max of table A, B

Steel stress o.k under service load

Calculated fscr due to Ms.1*

M s.1* n y
I cr
Limit = 0.8 f

sy

Steel stress o.k under 'unity' service load

Results based on reinforcement arrangement

Actual bending capacity

Depth to neutral axis

dn

Neutral axis parameter

ku

Depth of compression block

. k u d

300 mm
0.545

Reinforcement ratio
Area of steel

Mu
p
A st

5492.1 kNm
0.021
32160 mm2

246 mm

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Client

Brisbane Office

Project

Riverpoint Apartments

Subject

Wide Beam 2400x650 - Building 4

Date:
Job No:

Q275 84

12-Dec-07

Sheet No:
By:

DBT

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