Design of Reinforcement needed at the Bearing Region of the Precast Girder, G1

Design Specification (fy = 276 MPa)

Design the reinforcement needed at the bearing region of a precast girder 250 mm wide by 500
mm

deep supported on a 75 mm bearing pad. The dead and live load shears are 60.08 kN and 33.75 kN
respectively and assuming a horizontal force of 0.3 of the factored shear due to creep, shrinkage and
temperature effects.
1.

Factored loads
Vu

Factored shear,

1.2(60.08) + 1.6(33.75) = 126.10 kN

N uc

Horizontal force,
2.

0.3(126.10) = 37.83 kN > (0.2Vu = 25.22 kN)

(NSCP 411.10.3.4)

Identify the potential crack location. According to the PCI Design handbook [2.25], an appropriate
assumption for the crack angle as shown in Figure 1(a), is approximately 20. The crack may intersect the
bottom of the beam immediately adjacent to the bearing pad, which in this case is taken as 75 mm. A rolled
structural steel angle is used for confinement across the width of the beam at the bearing.

(b) Secondary possible crack and reinforcement Ash to provide shear transfer

Possible
Figure
1 crack

Ash

Avf + An
(a) Primary potential crack

and reinforcement to provide shear transfer

15 o

Nuc

Nuc
Vu

Vu

Main longitudinal reinforc

Avf

3.

Determine the shear-friction reinforcement

required. Presumably it would be appropriate to resolve the

Vu and Nuc into components parallel and perpendicular to the potential crack but a simpler and more
practical approach is to assume that all of Vu will act parallel to the crack
Avf

Vu
126100

435 .13
fy 0.75 (276 )(1.4)

mm2

required

(NSCP 411.8.4.1)

1 .4

Where

4.

For monolithic concrete

Determine the additional reinforcement

An

(NSCP 411.8.4.3)

to provide for the net tension across the potential crack. It will

be conservative not to use the sum of components Vu and Nuc perpendicular to any assumed non vertical
crack, but rather to use Nuc as if for a crack.
An

N uc
37830

182 .75
fy 0.75(276)

mm2

required
5.

(NSCP 411.8.4.1)

Total reinforcement to restrain primary crack

As Avf An 435 .13 182 .75 617 .88

mm2
Ab

Using 16 mm bars:
n

617 .88
3.07
201

(16) 2 201
4

, say 4-16 mm bars

The 16 mm bars are distributed as shown in Figure 2 below at the recommended 15 with the
horizontal, weld to the steel angle on one end, and embed the other end into the beam to develop the
tensile strength of the bars beyond the potential crack.
6.

Reinforcement for the potential secondary horizontal crack that may form as shown in Figure 1(b). If a
vertical crack begins near the corner region where the main shear-friction terminates, then either with or
without the tensile force N uc acting, there would be a potential horizontal crack due to the tensile force
developed in the main shear-friction reinforcement. The maximum shear that could act along such a failure

plane would be the horizontal shear-friction force arising from the tensile capacity of the main shearfriction reinforcement. The required vertical stirrup shear-friction reinforcement Ash is
Ash

As f y

f y

617 .88(276 )
441 .34
1.4(276 )

mm2
Ab

Using 10 mm U-stirrups:
n

7.

441 .34
2.81
157

(10) 2 (2) 157

4

mm2

, say 3-10 mm bar

Additional Confinement Reinforcement. Provide reinforcement to prevent splitting in the vertical plane of
the beam equal to 25% of the support reaction. This confinement reinforcement is divided equally into
horizontal Ach and vertical Acv portions.
Vu
126 .10 x10 3

57 .11
8fy
8(276 )

Ach Acv

mm2
Use 2-10 mm vertical bars and 2-10 mm horizontal U-stirrups (As = 314 mm2)
8.

Details

15 o

2-10 mm U-stirrups
3-10 mm U-stirrups @ 100 mm O.C.
2-10 mm U-stirrups
500 mm
Main reinforcement

Nuc
2-16 mm

2-16 mm

Vu

Figure 2