CAPACITY OF ECCENTRICALLY LOADED SHORT COLUMN ShortCol

Copyright 2000 Column Interaction Diagram

Material Properties Yakov Polyakov, PE Units: kg, kg-m
yakpol@hotmail.com fPn
f'c = 30.00 MPa Ec = 25,924 MPa http://yakpol.net 250000

U
fy = 420.00 MPa Es = 200,000 MPa
232,985
fb = 0.9
fc = 0.65
English 200000
Rectangular Concrete Section
Height H = 400.00 mm Metric
Width B = 400.00 mm
rs = 0.50% 150000
Maximum Force: fPu(max) = 0.8f[0.85f'cbh+(fy-f'c)SAs] = 2,285 kN
Ballanced Failure
Mb = 154 kN-M Mb = -154 kN-M
Pb = 1120 kN Pb = 1120 kN 100000

Dist. Del
No. Capa de Ys, mm
Area Acero Extremo Section Reinforcing
Refuerzos
comp. 450 fMn
50000
As Ys 400

mm mm 350
1 301.50 50.00 300
2 201.00 200.00
250 0
3 301.50 350.00
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000
4 200
5 150
6
100
7 -50000
8 50
As, mm^2
9 0
10 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350

Interaction Diagram Factored Loads Interaction Diagram Factored Loads

fPn fMn Pu Mu fPn fMn Pu Mu
 Sum of Forces = 0 Sum of Moments = 0
a 326.4857 mm -0.85f'c(ab)= -3330.15382 kN S(Asfs(Ys-h/2)) = 16
b1 0.83 S(As*fs)= -184.694185 kN -0.85f'c(ab)(a/2-h/2) = 122.4
Pu 2414.1 kN Pu/f 3713.968246 kN Mu/f = 138.5
Mu 90.0 kN-M Total 199.120
f 0.65
0.1f'cbh = 480 kN
fPu(max) = 0.8f[0.85f'cbh+(fy-f'c)SAs] = 2284.7 kN Force Converter 1000
S(As)= 804.00 mm^2 MomentConverter 1000000
fPu(min) = f(fySAs) = -303.912 kN
Units1 2
Units SI
CurrentUnitsSI
Steel Dist from Strain in Stress in
Area Bottom Reinf. Bar Reinf. Bar
As Ys es fs
mm^2 mm MPa
1 301.5 350 -0.000323 -39.0610892
2 201 200 -0.001470 -268.534908
3 301.5 50 -0.002618 -394.5
4 400 0.000060 11.9301838
5 400 0.000060 11.9301838
6 400 0.000060 11.9301838
7 400 0.000060 11.9301838
8 400 0.000060 11.9301838
9 400 0.000060 11.9301838
10 400 0.000060 11.9301838

As Ys B H
0 50 0 0
301.5 50.0 0 400
331.65 400
0 200 331.65 0
201.0 200.0 0 0

0 350
301.5 350.0

0 0
0.0 0.0
 0 0
0.0 0.0

0 0
0.0 0.0

0 0
0.0 0.0

0 0
0.0 0.0

0 0
0.0 0.0

0 0
0.0 0.0
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kN-M
kN-M