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Dowel Design

The document provides design specifications for dowel bars in a concrete slab, including dimensions, material properties, load values, and calculations to check that the bearing stress in the dowel bars is safe. Key values are a slab thickness of 0.3m, dowel bar diameter of 0.032m, grade of concrete of 30MPa, and permissible bearing stress of 21.92MPa and calculated bearing stress of 20.188MPa, confirming the design is safe.

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Dowel Design

The document provides design specifications for dowel bars in a concrete slab, including dimensions, material properties, load values, and calculations to check that the bearing stress in the dowel bars is safe. Key values are a slab thickness of 0.3m, dowel bar diameter of 0.032m, grade of concrete of 30MPa, and permissible bearing stress of 21.92MPa and calculated bearing stress of 20.188MPa, confirming the design is safe.

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Design of Dowel Bar

Slab Thickness, h (m) 0.3


Expansion Joint Width, z1 (mm) 20
Contraction Joint Width, z2 (mm) 5
Modulus of Subgrade Reaction, k (Mpa/m) 50
Radius of Relative Stiffness,l (m) 0.66
E for Dowel Bar (Mpa) 200000
Modulus of Dowel Support (Mpa/m) 415000
Maximum Single Axle Load (kN) 119.6
Maximum Single Wheel Load (kN) 59.8
% of Load transfer through Dowel Bar 50
% of Load Transfer at Terminal Stage to Tied Shoulders 30
Grade of Concrete (Mpa) 30
Diameter of Dowel Bar (m) 0.032
Permissible Bearing Stress in Concrete, Fb (Mpa) 21.92
Spacing between Dowel bars (m) 0.3
Length of Dowel Bars (m) 0.5
No.of Dowel Bars required 3.20
No.of Dowel Bars participating in load transfer 3.00
Total Load Transfer by Dowel bar system 1.64
Load carried by outer dowel bar, Pt (kN) 12.79

Check for Bearing Stress

Moment of Inertia of Dowel bar, I (mm4) 51445.76


Relative Stiffness of Dowel bar, Beta 0.024
Bearing stress in Dowel bar, Fbmax 20.188
Safe

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