SP-17(09)

ACI Design Handbook

Design of Structural Reinforced Concrete Elements
in Accordance with ACI 318-05

Editor: Murat Saatcioglu

This edition of the ACI Design Handbook was prepared in a new format based on the feedback received from hand-
book users over the years. The advances in programmable and nonprogrammable electronic calculators and
personal computers have enabled the elimination of numerous design aids that were intended to carry out relatively
simple design calculations. Instead, explanatory materials have been added to each chapter, while maintaining
essential design aids and illustrative examples. This is the first edition of the handbook after the introduction of
explicit strain limits for tension- and compression-controlled sections in flexure, with variable strength reduction factors φ
within the transition zone. This necessitated the development of a new set of design aids for members subjected to
flexure. The increased use of higher strength concretes and higher grade reinforcement has been recognized and the
design aids were developed for concrete strengths of up to 10,000 psi for beams and 12,000 psi for columns; and steel
grades of 60 and 75 ksi. The column interaction diagrams of Chapter 3 were developed for nominal quantities and in
a non-dimensional form to facilitate the use of interaction diagrams with any system of units and any strength
reduction factor. The use of nominal quantities also facilitates column investigations.

The chapters of the handbook were developed by individual authors, as indicated on the first page of each chapter.
The authors were long-standing members of the former ACI Committee 340, Design Aids for Building Codes, which
had the mandate to develop the previous editions of the handbook in accordance with the ACI 318 Building Code.
Committee 340 was first established in 1958 and was discharged in 2003. The first handbook was developed on the
basis of the 1963 edition of the ACI Building Code. The committee subsequently engaged in revising the handbook in
the years to come, and developed updated editions of the handbook for the 1971, 1977, 1983 and 1995 ACI Codes.
The current edition is based on ACI 318-05.

Information is presented in three sections: Explanatory Material, Design Examples, and Design Aids. The Introduc-
tion of each chapter includes explanatory material that provides the engineer with concise background of the subject.
The Design Examples illustrate the use of the Design Aids, which are tables and graphs intended to eliminate routine
and repetitious calculations.

Keywords: axial loads; beams (supports); bending moments; biaxial bending; buckling; columns (supports); compression
controlled sections; concrete piles; concrete slabs; cracking; deflection; eccentricity; flanges; flexural strength; footings; frames;
load factors; loads (forces); long columns; moments of inertia; pile caps; punching shear; reinforced concrete; reinforcement; shear
strength; slenderness ratio; special moment frames; spiral reinforcement; splicing; stiffness; strength analysis; strength reduction
factors; structural analysis; structural design; T-beams; tension controlled sections; torsion.

The SP-17(09) was published in 2009, is approximately 250 pp., and is available in a spiral bound format.

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