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contribution is proportional to y,, The laws of equilibrium are unaware of the designer’s discrimination between bars labelled as ‘web reinforcement’ and those labelled as ‘main reinforcement’, Eqn (1.11) accepts any reinforcement bar (be it labelled as web bar or main bar) provided it effectively helps to preserve the integrity of the concrete web by restraining the propagation and widening of the diagonal crack. It judges the contribution of an individual bar by its area A,, the depth y, and the angle of intersection 8... v) As explained earlier (Kong, 1986b) ‘Eqn 1.11 focuses attention on the basic features of what in reality is a complex load-transfer mechanism; it does this by deleting quantities which are less important compared with the main elements—quantities whose inclusion will obscure the designer’s understanding of the problem at the physical level. It is a useful tool in the hands of engineers who possess a sound understanding of statics, geometry and structural behaviour, Of course, the equation can be abused by indiscriminate application—as indeed can Codes of Practice be so abused. Consider, for example, a deep beam with a wide bottom flange, which contains ‘two large-diameter longitudinal bars away from the plane of the web, These bars clearly do not effectively protect the integrity of the concrete web, though they have a large product A,y.sin’@,; hence it would be inappropriate to include such bars when using Eqn 1.11.” vi) The CIRIA Guide (1977) does not in effect cover web openings, unless they are minor with little structural significance. Eqn (1.11), however, has successfully been extended to deep beams with web openings; this has been explained by Kong and Sharp (1977) and Kong et al. (1978). A brief description of the method is also given in Reynolds and Steedman’s Reinforced Concrete Designer's Handbook (1981 and 1988). For a detailed discussion of web openings in deep beams, see Chapter 3. 1.5 Draft Eurocode and CEB-FIP Model Code The (draft) Eurocode 2 (1984): Common Unified Rules for Concrete does not directly provide guidelines for the design of deep beams. of the P Model Code (1978). The TP Model Code applies to simply supported beams of span/depth ratio} than 2 and to of yh less than 2.5. 1.5.1 Flexural strength: simply supported deep beams ‘The area of the longitudinal reinforcement is calculated from the equation ASML) J (lay © 2002 Taylor & Francis Books, Inc. where M is the largest applied bending moment in the span, f, is the reinforcement characteristic strength, the partial safety factor and z the lever arm which is to be taken as follows: 220,2(2h) for 1<(Wh)<2 20.61 for (Uh)

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