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Master of structural Engineering and construction

Simply Supported Beam Designed According To BS8100

A simply supported beam with 8m span is required to sustain characteristic dead

load of 20kN/m and imposed live load of 10 kN/m on the whole span.

Construction material consists of grade C30 ( = 30 N/mm2) and high

strength steel ( = 460 N/mm2) and mild steel for link ( = 250 N/mm2).
Exposure condition for the beam is mild and 1.5 hours for fire resistance.

Figure #: Simply Supported Beam with 8 m Span

Find out the following requirement based on BS8110, 1997:

1) Beam Size
2) Nominal cover
3) Main reinforcement
4) Shear link
5) Deflection
6) Cracking
7) detailing

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Reference: Calculation Remarks

BS8110: Part1: 1. Durability and fire resistance

1997:Table 3.3
- Mild condition and grade of concrete C30 ,
nominal cover =25 mm
- 1.5hours fire resistance , nominal
cover= 20 mm
C= 25 mm
2. Beam size

Assuming Bar = 16 mm
Link = 6 mm Bar = 16 mm
Link = 6 mm

Calculate the effective depth, d

Take h as 600 mm
h = 600 mm
b = 125 mm

3. Loading
a) Dead load
- S/W of beam =
- Dead load = 5 kN/m

Total dead load = 1.8+5= 6.8 kN/m

DL = 22.4 kN/m
b) Live load
Imposed live load = 10 kN/m
LL = 10 kN/m
Ultimate load, = 1.4x22.4 + 1.6x10
= 47.36 kN/m

= 47.36 kN/m

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4. Moment and Shear Forces

BS8110:Part1:
Mmax = 378.88 kNm
1997: Cl 3.4.1
Mmax =
Vmax = 189.44 kN
Vmax =

5. Calculate the effective depth, d

d = 500-25-12.5-10
d = 452.5mm d = 452.5mm

BS8110: Part1:
1997: cl 3.4.4.4 1. Calculate the value of k 0.156 for singly
reinforced

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= 0.308 > 0.156

compression reinforcement is required
BS8110: Part1: 6. Compression reinforcement
1997: Cl 3.4.4.4
Assume diameter of compression
, Hence

Depth of the compression reinforcement ,

Determining the location of N.A

Compression steel has yielded

BS8110: Part1:
1997: Cl 3.4.4.4

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BS8110: Part1:
1997: Cl 3.4.4.4

Provide 4T20
Provide 4T20

7. Tension Reinforcement
BS8110: Part1:
1997: Cl 3.4.4.4

Provide 5T25
Provide 5T25

BS8110: Part1:
1997: As, min = = As, min = 130 mm2
Cl 3.12.5.3
Table 3.25 < As .. OK

As, max = 4000 mm2

As, max = =

> As . OK

As, max = =

> As . OK

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8. Check max. shear stress

BS8110:Part1:1
997:Cl 3.4.5.2

BS8110:Part1:1
997:Table 3.8

Since is greater than 25N/mm2, the value of

Table 3.7 vc must be multiplied by, then,

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Therefore we use the following formula

R10 150 c/c

Provide R10 150 c/c

9. Nominal link

For mild steel link

R10 300 c/c

Therefore take Sv with 300 mm c/c

R10 300 c/c

10. Extent of shear link

The shear resistance of nominal links +concrete

is

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Shear reinforcement is required over a distance given

by

BS8110:
Part1:
1997:Cl3.4.6. 11. Deflection
3

Equation 7

z = 523mm
Modification factor for tension reinforcement

Modification factor for compression reinforcement

BS8110:
Part1:
1997:Cl3.4.6.

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12. Cracking
BS8110::Cl
3.12.11.2.3

Table 3.28
For and 0% redistribution
Thus , clear distance between bars =160 mm

S1 S2

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Reference
Calculation
:
13. Detailing

X 4T2

500 R10- R10-300 R10-

150 150

1000 6000 1000 mm

X
5T2
4T2

R10-300

500 5T2

200

X-X

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