COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RCC T-BEAM BRIDGE BY

IRC: 112-2011 & IRC: 21-2000

A DISSERTATION
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLIMENT OF THE REQUIRMENTS

FOR
THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY
IN
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

BY

A V PRANAY KUMAR REDDY

Roll No: 12011D2002

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

JNTUH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, KUKATPALLY
HYDERABAD 500085, INDIA

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF

ENGINEERING
(AUTONOMOUS) Kukatpally, Hyderabad-500 085.

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the dissertation work entitled COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RCC
T-BEAM BRIDGE BY IRC: 112-2011 & IRC:21-2000 being submitted by Mr. A V
PRANAY KUMAR REDDY, Regd.No.12011D2002 in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the award of the degree of MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY in
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING to the JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, HYDERABAD is a record of bonafide work carried
out by him under my guidance and supervision.

Mr. A V PRANAY KUMAR REDDY has worked on this project for

a period of two semesters and in my opinion this thesis attains the standard requirements for
the award of Masters Degree. The results embodied in this dissertation have not been
submitted to any other University or Institution for the award of any Degree or Diploma.

Project Guide
Mrs.P. Srilakshmi
Assoc.Professor in Civil Engineering Dept.,
Dept. of Civil Engineering,
JNTUH College of Engineering,
Engineering,JNTUH
Hyderabad-500085

Head of the Department

Dr.K.M. Lakshmana Rao
Professor in Transportation Engg.
Head of the Department,
Dept. of Civil
Hyderabad- 500085

DECLARATION

I, the undersigned A V PRANAY KUMAR REDDY bearing Regd.No: 12011D2002

here by certify that the project entitled COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RCC T-BEAM
BRIDGE BY IRC 112 :2011 &IRC 21:2000 which is being submitted to the Jawaharlal
Technological university Hyderabad, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award
of the Degree of Master of Technology in Structural Engineering, Department of civil
engineering, is a bonafide work carried out by me and the results embodied in this Project
report have not been reproduced or copied from any source. The results embodied in this
Project report have not been submitted to any other university or Institute for the award of
any Degree or Diploma.

A V PRANAY KUMAR REDDY

Regd. No: 12011D2002
JNTUCE, Kukatpally,
Hyderabad- 500 085.

PLACE : Hyderabad
DATE :

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to express my sincere gratitude and indebtedness to my thesis guide

P.Srilakshmi, Associate professor of Civil Engineering Department, JNTU for her constant
guidance and supervision and also for her valuable time and generous encouragement despite
having a busy schedule.

I am also thankful to my friends for their co-operation throughout the period of my

course. Last but not the least, I am thankful to all of them who direct or indirectly helped me
to complete this project.

A.V.PRANAY KUMAR REDDY

Reg.No: 12011D2002

ABSTRACT
Grillage analysis is probably the most popular computer aided method for
analyzing bridge decks. This is because it is easy to comprehend and use, relatively
inexpensive, and has been proved to be reliably accurate for a wide variety of bridge types.
This method, pioneered for computer use by Lightfoot and Sawko represents the deck by an
equivalent grillage of beams. The dispersed bending and torsional stiffness in every region of
the slab are assumed for purpose of analysis to be concentrated in the nearest equivalent
grillage beam. The slab's longitudinal stiffnesses are concentrated in the longitudinal beams
while the transverse stiffnesses are concentrated in the transverse beams.

This method is applicable to bridge decks with simple as well as complex

configurations with almost the same ease and confidence. In the present work
STAAD.pro is used for obtaining accurate results.

STAAD.pro is equipped with state-of-art result verification capabilities that

include display and plotting of structure geometry, deflected / mode shape, bending moment /
shear force diagrams etc.

The present work deals with grillage analogy method for the comparative study of
RCC T Beam bridge by IRC:21-2000 & IRC:112:2011.

CONTENTS
Certificate
Declaration
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Contents
Tables
figures
notations

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
General
1.1 Definition
1.2 Components of bridge
1.3 Structural forms of bridge decks
1.3.1

Forms of construction
(a) Solid slab deck
(b) Voided slab deck
(c) Pseudo slab deck

1.3.2

Slab on Girder bridge

1.3.3

Box Girder bridge

1.4

Plan Geometry or Plan Forms

1.5

Support configurations

1.6

Objectives of study

CHAPTER-2 LITERATURE REVIEW

CHAPTER-3 :BRIDGE LOADING

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Loading requirements

3.3 Dead load
3.4 Live load
3.5 Impact load
3.6 Footway, kerb, railing parapet and crash barriers

CHAPTER-4 :METHOD OF GRILLAGE ANALYSIS

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Idealisation of Physical deck into equivalent Grillage
4.2.1 General guidelines for grillage layout
4.3 Grillage Idealisation for slab on guide bridge
4.4 Evaluation of equivalent elastic properties
4.5 Evaluation and applications of loads
4.6 Identification of panels in the Grillage
4.7 Transfer of loads to the nodes
4.8 Grillage Analysis and force responses.
4.9 Design envelope
4.10 Interpretation of results

CHAPTER -5 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

5.1 Bridge data
5.2 loading data
5.3 section properties
5.4 output

CHAPTER-6 CONCLUSSIONS

REFERENCES

APPENDIX