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Design Principles of Singly Reinforced Beams

This document provides an overview of beam design in reinforced concrete structures, detailing types of beams such as singly and doubly reinforced beams, T-sections, and L-sections. It discusses the structural design considerations for beams, including bending, shear, and deflection, as well as modes of failure such as compression, tension, and balanced failure. The lecture emphasizes the importance of proper reinforcement to avoid catastrophic failures in concrete beams.

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Design Principles of Singly Reinforced Beams

This document provides an overview of beam design in reinforced concrete structures, detailing types of beams such as singly and doubly reinforced beams, T-sections, and L-sections. It discusses the structural design considerations for beams, including bending, shear, and deflection, as well as modes of failure such as compression, tension, and balanced failure. The lecture emphasizes the importance of proper reinforcement to avoid catastrophic failures in concrete beams.

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MULUNGUSHI UNIVERSITY

School of Engineering and Technology


Department of Engineering

CIE - CONCRETE REINFORCEMENT

• LECTURE 4- Design of Beams

Eng Ng'andu.P MSc [Link]. MEIZ pngandu@[Link] +260978991328


Beams
Beams in reinforced concrete structures can be defined according to:-
TYPES OF BEAMS

❑ - Single Reinforced Beam

❑ - Double Reinforced Beam

❑ - T-section

❑ - L-section
(a) singly reinforced. (b) doubly
reinforced.
; (c) T-section (d) L-section
Beams reinforced with tension steel only are referred
to as singly reinforced. Beams reinforced with tension
and compression steel are termed doubly reinforced..
compression steel will increase the moment
capacity of the beam and hence allow more slender
sections to be used.
- doubly reinforced beams are used in
preference to singly reinforced beams when
there is some restriction on the construction
depth of the section.
b - is the width of the beam,
h - the overall depth of section,
d - the effective depth of tension reinforcement,
d′ - the depth of compression reinforcement,
As - the area of tension reinforcement
As′ - the area of compression reinforcement.
SINGLY REINFORCED BEAM DESIGN

All beams may fail due to excessive bending or shear. In addition,


excessive deflection of beams must be avoided otherwise the
efficiency or appearance of the structure may become impaired.
. Generally, structural design of concrete beams primarily involves
consideration of the following aspects which are discussed next:

1. bending
2. shear
3. deflection.
BENDING

Consider the case of a simply supported, singly reinforced, rectangular beam subject to a uniformly
distributed load ω as shown
3 MODES OF FAILURE IN CONCRETE FLEXURE MEMBERS

➢ COMPRESSION FAILURE

➢ TENSION FAILURE

➢ BALANCED FAILURE
➢ COMPRESSION FAILURE (CONCRETE)

Concrete fails before Steel Yielding, in this case concrete will reaches
ultimate strain and ultimate strength before steel has yielded, this is
called over – reinforced because we have more steel to the balanced
section, this too causes a catastrophic failure so it should be avoided.
BALANCED FAILURE

- In this Mode Failure, concrete and steel fail simultaneously, Concrete reaches
ultimate strength at the same time Steel Reaches its Yield Strength, this leads in
Catastrophic kind of failure because Concrete is a brittle material, it happens
without warning therefore this type of failure should be avoided.
to an ultimate design moment (M) at mid-span. The resulting curvature of the beam
produces a compression force in the concrete (Fcc) and a tensile force in the
reinforcement (Fst). Since there is no resultant axial force on the beam, the force in
the concrete must equal the force in the reinforcement:
where z is
Summary Design of Singly Reinforced Beams
END OF LECTURE

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