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3. Crack Width Check:
Short term temperature fall, T 1 (°C): 4
Steel Formwork 18mm Plywood Formwork
Cement Content (kg/m3)
Winter Summer Winter Summer
300 12 18 20 28
350 15 23 27 35
400 17 27 32 43
2 Type of Portland Cement:
Modified T1 = 28 °C
Long term seasonal temperature fall, T 2 (°C):
2 Full Movement Joints provided at less than 15m spacings/ Restraint provided by a section subject to the same
climatic exposure as that being restrained? Yes/No
Long term seasonal temperature fall, T2 = 20 °C [Clause 5.9]
Coefficient of thermal expansion, α = 0.000012
Thermal Strain, ϵth = 0.00046 [0.8 x α x (T1 + T2)]
Ultimate Tensile Strain, ϵult = 200 microstrains [Clause 5.3]
Shrinkage Strain, ϵsh = 100 microstrains [Clause 5.6]
3 Type of Rebar:
Stress Ratio, fct*/fb = 0.67
1 Restraint Condition:
Restraint Factor, R = 0.2 [Table 2]
Allowable Crack width, w = 0.1 mm
Required Early thermal Reinforcement per face = 945 mm 2