Determination of Effective length

Unsupported Length
Floor to Floor Height mm
Depth of shallowest beam mm
Unsupported Length L mm

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calculations for rotation release

are not done

Effective length

Leff for top story

Leff for intermediate story
Leff for top story
a) withiout plinth beam
b) with plinth beam
c)full parking
i) withiout plinth beam
ii) with plinth beam

Top StorMiddel St
3000
3000
300
380
2700
2620

=Leff for L
top story may be taken as 1.2L w
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0.8 L
where
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0.8 Lf
=
0.8 Lw
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1.2 Lf to 2 Lf
1.2 Lw to 2 Lw

If Leff/h <12 Coloumn is short else long or slender

where

or Slender coloumn allowance of slenderness has been approximately arrivd at from reducti
Reduction coefficent =
Cr =1.25-Leff/48b 1.25-(Leff/b)/48
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Therefore Allowance for slenderness in %=(1/Cr -1) X100

of Effective length and Slenderness

Bottom Story
3450 * because of 450mm plinth height
380
3070

for rotation release factors 1,2

may be taken as 1.2L when its top end is not held in position hoever its totally not free hen
L= Floor to floor height
Lf=Distance between top of footing to the underside of the shallower beam
Lw=Distance between top of plinth beam to the underside of the shallower

e no walls are there in parking possibility of sway to occure depending upon end condition
h= b or D of coloumn

y arrivd at from reduction coeff used in working stress method

.25-(Leff/b)/48