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The document details the structural design calculation for a concrete element. It provides material properties of the concrete and steel. It also details the section properties, loading details, and calculates the crack width to check if it is below the allowable 0.1mm.

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ES - Crack Width Calculation

The document details the structural design calculation for a concrete element. It provides material properties of the concrete and steel. It also details the section properties, loading details, and calculates the crack width to check if it is below the allowable 0.1mm.

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STRUCTURAL DESIGN CALCULATION

Date : 02-Apr-16
Part : Number: Element :
Project :

a) Material Proerties

fcu : 40 MPa (28 days compressive cube strength of concrete)


fy : 500 MPa (Characteristic steel strength)
3
wc : 25 kN/m (unit wt. of concrete)
Ec : K0+0.2fcu,28 (Modulus of elasticity of concrete) (BS 8110-2 Sec.7.2)
: 28000 MPa
0.5 Ec : 14000 MPa (Considered value for crack width calculation)
Es : 2.E+05 MPa (Modulus of elasticity of steel)
n : 14.3 (Modular ratio)

b) Section Proerties
Width b : 1000 mm
height h : 300 mm
effective depth d : 242 mm
Clear cover to main bar (not to links)
C : 40 mm
2
Area of steel As : 565 mm
bar dia : 12 mm
bar spacing S : 125 mm

Distance from the point considered to the surface of nearest longitudinal bar
acr : (62.5^2 + 46^2) - 6
: 71.6 mm

c) Loading Details
Maximum un factored BM at the cross section
Ms : 24.9 kNm
STRUCTURAL DESIGN CALCULATION

Date : 02-Apr-16
Part : Number: Element :
Project :

d) Crack Width
Allowable crack width : 0.1 mm

percentage of steel available


: 565.49/(1000 x 242) n : 14.3
: 0.0023
depth of neutral axis
2 0.5
x : d . [-n + (n ) + 2 n ) ]
: 54.97 mm
Stress in reinforcement
fs : Ms/[As (d - x/3)]
: 196.7 MPa
Stress in concrete
fc : fs As/[0.5 b x)]
: 4.046 MPa
Strain at soffit of concrete section
1 : fs Es (h-x)/(d-x)
: 0.0013
average strain at the level where the cracking is being considered

( )( )
= (BS 8110-2 equation-13)
3 ( )
where,
: 0.0003 a' : 300 mm

Design surface crack width


3
= (BS 8110-2 equation-12)
1 + 2( )

wc : 0.06 mm
< 0.1 mm, Hence o.k.

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