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Crack Control in Concrete Design BS 5400

This document provides calculations to check crack width and stress limitations for a reinforced concrete section according to BS 5400. It details the material properties, loadings, reinforcement details, and performs calculations of crack width and stresses in the concrete and steel reinforcement to ensure code compliance.

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Crack Control in Concrete Design BS 5400

This document provides calculations to check crack width and stress limitations for a reinforced concrete section according to BS 5400. It details the material properties, loadings, reinforcement details, and performs calculations of crack width and stresses in the concrete and steel reinforcement to ensure code compliance.

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Serviceability Limit State & Crack Control to BS 5400 : P

(Clauses [Link] and [Link])


Section : 4m Weighbridge Annex D

Concrete Strength fcu = 50 N/mm2 Concrete Section


Steel Strength fy = 500 N/mm 2
Breadth(b) Depth(h)
Cl. [Link] Youngs Modulus for Steel Es = 200000 N/mm 2
1950 300

Environment Conditions for nominal cover - Table 13 :

Reinforcement controlling crack width : Steel Reinforcement


Cover from notional surface = 30 mm Area(As) Depth(d)
Bar diameter (f)= 16 Compression 0 0
Spacing (s) = 150 Tension(Ast) 2613 242

Factored Dead Load Moment = 10.4 kNm


Factored Live Load Moment = 74.3 kNm

Youngs Modulus for Concretel Ec = 34 kN/mm2 (From Table 3)


Cl. 4.3.2.1b) Modified Ec = 31.91 kN/mm 2

x/d = 0.231
x= 55.907 mm

Second Mom of Area of Cracked Section = 6.807E+08 mm4


Steel Stress = 145.121 N/mm2
Steel Strain = 0.0007256

Distance from Comp Face to notional surface = 280 mm


Strain at notional surface = 0.0008738
Stiffening Effect of Conc in Tension = 0 (From Equation 25)
Modified Strain at notional surface = 0.0008738
Distance from crack to bar = 76.077 mm

Cl [Link] Design Crack Width = 0.1448 mm (eqn. 24)

Maximum Crack Width from Table 1 : 0.25 mm Hence OK

Stress Limitations
Cl [Link] Compressive stress in concrete = 6.96 N/mm2
Additional compressive stress due to Temperature Difference = 0.00 N/mm2
Total Compressive stress in concrete = 6.96 N/mm2
Table 2: Allowable compressive stress = 0.5fcu = 25 N/mm2 Hence OK

Tensile stress in steel = 145.121 N/mm2


Additional tensile stress due to Temperature Difference = 0.00 N/mm2
Total Tensile stress in steel = 145.12 N/mm2
Table 2: Allowable tensile stress = 0.75fy = 375 N/mm2 Hence OK

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