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This document provides an introduction to reinforced concrete design. It discusses reinforced concrete as concrete with steel reinforcement to improve tensile strength. It also discusses structural design methodology, properties of concrete and reinforcing steel, building codes used for design like ACI 318, design loads including dead, live and environmental loads, minimum live loads in ACI code, and safety provisions including load and strength reduction factors. The goal is to provide an overview of key concepts needed to learn reinforced concrete building design.

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Reinforced Concrete: o

This document provides an introduction to reinforced concrete design. It discusses reinforced concrete as concrete with steel reinforcement to improve tensile strength. It also discusses structural design methodology, properties of concrete and reinforcing steel, building codes used for design like ACI 318, design loads including dead, live and environmental loads, minimum live loads in ACI code, and safety provisions including load and strength reduction factors. The goal is to provide an overview of key concepts needed to learn reinforced concrete building design.

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Reinforced Concrete Design Lecture 01 Introduction to RCD

 Reinforced Concrete:
o The concrete in which steel is used as reinforcement for enhancing primarily
the tensile strength of concrete members.

 What is Structural Design?


o It is a method or tool by which we find out safe and economical
specifications of a structure or a member of the structure sufficient to carry
the load.
o In other words finding out cross-sectional dimension, grade of material,
amount of reinforcement etc. necessary to withstand the internal forces that
we have got from structural analysis.

In order to learn the design of reinforced concrete buildings following must be


studied:
o Properties of concrete and reinforcing steel,
o Building codes used for design of reinforced concrete
o Mechanics of reinforced concrete

 Properties of Concrete:
 Compressive strength and tensile strength
o The specified compressive strength is measured by compression tests
on 6 by 12 inches cylinders, tested after 28 days of moist curing
(testing methods: ASTM Standards C31 and C39). The compressive
strength of concrete is denoted by fc‫׳‬.
Tensile Strength varies between 8% and 15% of the compressive
strength and is neglected in design.

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 Properties of Reinforcing Steel:


 Stress Strain Curve

 Strength

 Physical Properties

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 Codes of Practice:
 Introduction
o A code is a set of technical specifications and standards that controls the
important details of design and construction. The purpose of code is to
produce sound structures so that public will be protected from poor and
inadequate design and construction.
Examples:
 ACI
 SEAOC
 NEHRP
 BCP-SP 07
 AISC
 AASHTO
 ASCE7-02

 ACI 318 Code


o The American Concrete Institute “Building Code Requirements for
Structural Concrete (ACI 318-14),” referred to as the ACI code,
provides minimum requirements for structural concrete design or
construction.

 Design Loads:
These loads include dead loads, live loads and environmental loads.

 Dead Load: these are the loads which are constant in magnitude and fixed
in location throughout the life time of the structure Dead load includes self-
weight of the structure and any permanent material fixed to the structure
such as wall, roof materials and tiles etc.

 Live Load: Live loads are varying both in magnitude as well as location.
Live loads mainly consist of occupancy loads in building and traffic loads in
bridge. Live load at any time are uncertain in both location as well as in
magnitude.

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 Environmental Loads: These loads includes Snow load, Wind pressure,


Suction, Earthquake Load etc. Like live load environmental loads are
uncertain in both magnitude and location.

 Minimum Uniformly Distributed Live Loads in the ACI code:

 Safety Provision:
o A structural member is always designed to resist a load greater than
service/actual load, in order to provide safety against failure. In strength
design method the member is designed to resist the factor load which is
obtained by multiplying service loads with a load factor. Different load
factors are used for different loads. In this subject the load factor will be 1.2
and 1.6 for dead and live load respectively.
Wu = 1.2DL + 1.6LL

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In addition to load factor ACI specify another factor to allow an additional


reserved in the capacity of the structural member. This factor is known as
strength reduction factor and is denoted by Φ. For flexural tension controlled
member Φ is 0.90. The general design philosophy is,
Mu ≤ Md = Φ Mn
Where
Mu = External Moment (Demand)
Md = Design Moment
Mn = Nominal Moment (Capacity)
Φ = Strength Reduction Factor

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