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1.0 Early Thermal Check

This document contains calculations for an early thermal check of the reinforced concrete ground floor top slab of a project. It summarizes the slab details, material properties, design parameters, and calculations to check crack width and steel reinforcement requirements in the surface zone due to temperature variations. The calculations show that the provided steel reinforcement ratio of 0.002262 is greater than the required ratio of 0.003500 to control cracking in the 125mm thick surface zone due to an estimated 50°C total temperature drop. References and an appendix table on typical Dubai temperature variations are also included.

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1.0 Early Thermal Check

This document contains calculations for an early thermal check of the reinforced concrete ground floor top slab of a project. It summarizes the slab details, material properties, design parameters, and calculations to check crack width and steel reinforcement requirements in the surface zone due to temperature variations. The calculations show that the provided steel reinforcement ratio of 0.002262 is greater than the required ratio of 0.003500 to control cracking in the 125mm thick surface zone due to an estimated 50°C total temperature drop. References and an appendix table on typical Dubai temperature variations are also included.

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DOCUMENT No

CALCULATIONS
PROJECT TITLE

OFFICE

SHEET No

SUBJECT

REINFORCED CONCRETE EARLY THERMAL CHECK


ISSUE

TOTAL
SHEETS

AUTHOR

DATE

CHECKED BY

DATE

APPROVED BY

DATE

COMMENTS

GDB

2
3
4
5
SUPERSEDES DOC No

DESIGN BASIS STATEMENT (Inc. sources of info/data, assumptions made, standards, etc.)

DATE

DOCUMENT No

SHEET

OF

PH9-0A-33-72-C912
SUBJECT

GROUND FLOOR TOP SLAB - EARLY THERMAL CHECK

SUBJECT

CALCULATIONS

OUTPUT

References. BS8007 1987 / BS8110 1997 - Part 1 / BS8110 1985 - Part 2

Slab mark S250


Location: GROUND

Size & Material Properties:


Cube Strength of Conc., f cu

35 N/mm2

Crack width, W max


Restraint factor, R
Section Thickness, h
Concrete cover, c
Bar size,
Bar spacing, s
ms for steel
Type of reinforcement

0.3 mm
0.5
250 mm
50 mm
12 mm
200 mm
1.05
Deformed1Type 2
Plain Round

Steel strength, fy

460

N/mm2

Steel modulus, Es

200000

N/mm2

Average bond strength between concrete & steel, f b

2.4

N/mm2

Direct tensile strength of immature concrete, f ct


Effective depth, d = h - c - / 2
Steel area provided in b=1000 mm wide zone, As

1.60
194

N/mm2
mm

565

mm2

Steel ratio provided over gross area, pg = As / (b h)

Concrete Surface Zone


Wall / Suspended-slab / Top of ground slab

0.002262

565

0.0013

Bottom of ground slab

hs
Wall/Suspended-slab/Top of Zone
groundDepth,
slab: Surface
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion for mature concrete,
T1, fall in temperature between the hydration peak and ambient
T2, fall in temperature because of seasonal variations
Effective Strain, = R (T1+T2)

125
1.00E-05
30
20

mm
o

0.000250

Likely maximum spacing of cracks, Smax = W max /


Steel requirements in surface zone, as per Appendix A of BS 8007:
1- Steel ratio to control crack widths, pcrw = fct / (2 fb Smax)

1200.0
0.003333

2- Critical Steel ratio to distribute cracking, p crit = fct / fy

0.003478

3- Minimum Steel ratio as per Table A.1 BS 8007, p min

0.003500

Hence, Steel ratio required, preq

0.003500

Required Steel Area in 1000mm x hs deep surface zone = 1000 preq hs

< 565 provided, Hence OK

438

mm

Table 1

SEASONAL TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS, T2


Mean daily maximum and
(Dubai 1995) are:
MONTH MAX
MIN
C
C
Jan
24.8
13.9
Feb
26.0
15.5
Mar
26.2
17.1
Apr
31.6
19.7
May
36.6
23.5
Jun
38.7
25.8
Jul
38.5
28.4
Aug
41.2
30.6
Sep
38.4
26.9
Oct
35.9
23.8
Nov
30.4
19.2
Dec
24.2
17.2

minimum temperatures for a typical year in the UAE


Using mean of means:
Max Daily Temperature (August)
= (41.2 + 30.6)/2 = 35.9 C
Min Daily Temperature (January)
= (24.8 + 13.9)/2 = 19.4 C
Seasonal Temperature Variation

= 35.9 - 19.4 = 16.5, say 17 C


Note: Internal design temperature of
buildings is 21 C. Therefore, it is safe
to use min temperature of 19.4 C

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/AEXX0004

ar in the UAE

ph/AEXX0004

fct = based from the equation recommended by EN1992-1-1

Issue
00

Revision History
Description
Draft for Comment

By
GDB

Date
25-Feb-10

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