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Your office is designing a simply supported beam subject to the loading shown below. The point
load is a live load with P = 15 kip, the distributed loads are wD = 0.7 kip/ft and wL = 1.2 kip/ft.
The span length is L = 30 ft. Your co-worker has given you the beam design shown below to
check. Material strengths are: fc0 = 4 kip/in2 , fy = 60 kip/in2 . Is the beam adequate?
16"
P
L/2
24"
wD , wL 26"
29"
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L
For a constant distributed load, the maximum moment occurs at midspan. We are interested
in the worst case, so this is the moment that will be used as the factored load, Mu,dist :
wu L2 2.8 kip/ft(30 ft)2
Mu,dist = = = 311 kipft (2)
8 8
Considering just the live point load, the shear and moment diagrams are:
P/2
Shear
L/2 L/2
P / 2
Moment
Mmax= PL / 4
The maximum moment occurs at midspan just as with the distributed loading and is equal to
P L/4. To get the maximum factored load, use Pu = 1.6P in place of P :
Pu L (1.6P )L 1.6(15 kip)30 ft
Mu,point = = = = 180 kipft (3)
4 4 4
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The total factored moment is the sum of the factored moments from the distributed loading
and the point loading in Equation 2 and Equation 3, respectively.
The steel area, As , is greater than both required minimums from the code.