CE 318

Reinforced Concrete
3b-Flexural analysis and design of reinforced concrete rectangular beams
The Main Sources of These Materials
1. Saudi Building Code
2. American Concrete Institute Code
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De-sign, Prentice Hall,. Latest Edition
4. M. Nadim Hassoun, and Akthem Al Manaseer, Structural Concrete
Theory and design, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Latest Edition
5. Internet Material
Single Reinforced Rectangular sections (Analysis)
Single Reinforced Rectangular sections (Design)
 Design a RC beam for flexure to resist a positive bending moment of Mu = 120 KN.m as rectangular section with
the shown properties in the figure below. Draw your designed cross section Assume any missing data.
• Solution
• Rectangular Section Case
h=600mm
• fc’ = 30 MPa, fy = 420 MPa h d=550mm
0.85 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑐′ ≤ 30 𝑀𝑃𝑎
b=250mm
0.05 (𝑓𝑐′ − 30)
• β1 = 0.85 − 𝑓𝑜𝑟 30 < 𝑓𝑐′ < 58 𝑀𝑃𝑎 = 0.85
7 b f’c=30MPa
0.65 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑐′ > 58 𝑀𝑃𝑎
• Mu = 120 kN.m, ϕ = 0.9 fy = 420 MPa
• b = 250 mm, h = 600 mm , d = 550 mm
0.85 𝑓𝑐′ 𝑏 𝑑 4 𝑀𝑢 0.85∗30∗250∗550 4∗120000000
• As = 1− 1− = 1− 1− =599 mm2
𝑓𝑦 1.7 𝑓𝑐′ ∅ 𝑏 𝑑2 420 1.7∗30∗0.9∗250∗(5502 )

𝑓𝑐′ 1.4
• ρ = As / (b d) = 599/(250*550)=0.0043 > ρmin = max , = 0.00326 OK
4𝑓𝑦 𝑓𝑦

• let db’ = 16 mm, Ab’ = 201 mm2, nb = ?

• nb = As / Ab = 599/201 =2.98 → use 3 ϕ 16 mm → As = 603 mm2 on 1 layer
𝐴𝑠 𝑓𝑦 603∗420
• 𝑎= = = 39.7𝑚𝑚
0.85𝑓′𝑐 𝑏 0.85∗30∗250
𝑎 39.7
• 𝑐=
𝑎
=
39.7
= 46.7 𝑚𝑚 𝑀𝑛 = 𝐴𝑠 𝑓𝑦 𝑑 − = 603 ∗ 420 550 −
0.85 0.85 2 2
0.003 𝑑−𝑐 0.003∗(550−46.7)
• 𝜀𝑠 =
𝑐
=
46.7
= 0.032 > 0.005 ∴ 𝑇𝐶𝑆 = 134265789 𝑁. 𝑚𝑚 = 134.26 𝐾𝑁. 𝑚
• ∅ = 0.9
∅𝑀𝑛 = 0.9 ∗ 134.26 = 120.8 𝐾𝑛. 𝑚
∴ ∅𝑀𝑛 > 𝑀𝑢 Design is OK