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Concrete Beam Designer to AS3600 - Beam VC

This page performs the beam design of beam "VC" of our simple project example.
📝 This calculation has been written in accordance with AS3600:2018.

Calculation

Technical notes and assumptions

Parameter symbols


Parameters

Loads



N*
:0kN



V*
:122kN



M*
:92kN m



Section Geometry



B
:500mm



D
:800mm



c
:50mm


Tensile (Bottom) Reinforcement:


db.st
:20mm



n1
:9


Shear Reinforcement:


db.sv
:20mm



s
:125mm



n
:4



Shear Check - Method of Analysis



Method for calculating shear factor kv
:General



dg (for general method)
:16mm



Material Properties



f'c
:32MPa



Ec
:20,000MPa



fy
:420MPa



Es
:200,000MPa



f'ct.f
:3.39MPa



f'ct
:2.04MPa



Geometric Properties



Ast,prov
:2,827mm2



Ag
:4.00e+5mm2



Zx
:5.3e+7mm3



Ixx
:21,333,333,333mm4



α2
:0.85



γ
:0.8260000000000001



d
:720mm



dn
:43.65889790650515mm



Shear Properties



kv
:0.2961918641976436



bv
:500mm



dv
:648mm



√f'c
:5.656854249492381



εx
:0.00023365065767659684


Design Checks

Flexural Checks

Flexural capacity:


ϕ (moment)
:0.8



ϕMu
:643kN m



Flexural util
:0.14385435169714145

Min tension reinf check:


Ast,min
:718mm2



Ast,prov
:2,827mm2



Check
:OK

Ductility check:


kuo
:0.14682169056532535



ku <0.36
:PASS




Shear Checks

Shear capacity:


ϕ (shear)
:0.7



ϕVuc
:380kN



ϕVus
:2636.095541501622kN



ϕVu
:3016kN



Shear util
:0.04032068951770275

Min shear reinf check:


Shear reinf req?
:REQUIRED



Asv,min
:67mm2



Asv,prov
:1257mm2



Check (1)
:OK


Max shear strength check:


ϕVu.max
:1898kN



ϕVu < ϕVu.max
:PASS