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Reinforced Concrete Design

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1. Reinforced concrete beam sections in which the tension steel and concrete reaches failure strain
simultaneously.
a. Balanced Condition b. Under reinforced c. Over reinforced d. NOTC

Situation 1: The beam has a simple span of 4 meters and carries a super-imposed load of 25 kN/m. Use
fc = 9MPa, fs = 124 MPa, n = 10.

2. Determine the moment of inertia of the composite section.

a. 1243 x 106 b. 1423 x 106 c. 1342 x 106 d. 1123 x 106
3. Determine the moment capacity of concrete.
a. 77.79 b. 70.33 c. 66.77 d. 55.54
4. Determine the moment capacity of compression steel.
a. 77.79 b. 70.33 c. 66.77 d. 55.54
5. Determine the moment capacity of the tension steel.
a. 77.79 b. 70.33 c. 66.77 d. 55.54

Situation 2: (Step-by-Step Sample Problem) A beam 280 mm x 450 mm is reinforced with 3-20 mm Ø
tensile reinforcements with 40 mm concrete clear cover. Consider 10-mm Ø stirrups.
Use: f'c = 21 MPa, fy = 278 MPa, Weight of Concrete = 23.6 kN/m 3
6. Determine the steel area of the tension steel.
a. 300 pi mm2 b. 400 pi mm2 c. 500 pi mm2 d. 600 pi mm2
7. Determine the modulus of elasticity of concrete.
a. 21138 MPa b. 21538 MPa c. 21138 MPa d. 22.538 MPa
8. Determine the modular ratio.
a. 7 b. 8 c. 9 d. 10
9. Determine the location of the neutral axis measured from the outermost compression fiber.
a. 126.381 mm b. 128.672 c. 124.234 d. 131.894
10. Determine the cracked moment of inertia.
a. 783.84 x 106 b. 777.88 x 106 c. 773.84 x 106 d. 743.84 x 106
11. Determine the gross moment of inertia.
a. 2216.25 x 106 b. 2316.25 x 106 c. 2226.25 x 106 d. 2126.25 x 106
12. Determine the cracking moment.
a. 26. 849 kN-m b. 29. 849 kN-m c. 27. 849 kN-m d. 28. 849 kN-m
13. Determine applied moment if the beam carries a dead load of 12 kN/m (including its own weight)
and a live load of 18 kN/m of the 4-meter simple span.
a. 40 kN-m b. 50 kN-m c. 60 kN-m d. 70 kN-m

Situation 3: A reinforced concrete beam has a width of 300mm and an effective depth to tension bars of
600mm. If fc'=30 MPa, fy=414 Mpa, and using NSCP 2015.
14. Determine the maximum steel ratio.
a. 0.02563 b. 0.01822 c. 0.02207 d. 0.0261
15. Calculate the reduction factor.
a. 0.85 b. 0.815 c. 0.65 d. 0.833

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16. Calculate the maximum factored moment it can support.

a. 204.35 b. 125.36 c. 525.23 d. 660.15

Situation 4: A rectangular beam has b=300mm, d=500mm. and reinforced at tension side only with 6-
32mm bars, fc'=27.6 Mpa and fy=415 Mpa.

17. Determine the depth of the compression block.

a. 306.23 b. 260.30 c. 289.54 d. 277.35

18. Determine the ultimate moment capacity of the singly reinforced beam.
a. 677.652 b. 440.414 c. 609. 804 d. 404.762

Situation 5: A Doubly Reinforced concrete beam has an effective depth of 600mm and a width of
325mm. It is reinforced with a compressive bar at the top having an area of 1490 sq.m and 4970 sq.mm
tension bars at the bottom bars, using fc'=28 MPa and fy=414 MPa. Cover to centroid of compression
reinforcement is 65mm.
19. Determine the depth of compression block.
a. 186.26mm b. 219.13mm c. 226.78mm d. 198.32mm
20. Determine the ultimate moment capacity of the beam in kN-m.
a. 325. 26 b. 222.25 c. 654.32 d. 945.25

Situation 6: To comply with architectural requirements, a column in a non sway frame is of T-section
shown.
Given:
Longitudinal Bars
As1= 6- 20 mm diameter bars in compression
As2= 4- 28 mm diameter bars in tension
fy= 415 MPa

Longitudinal Ties:
10 mm diameter bars with fy = 275 MPa
Clear cover to the ties is 40 mm
Dimensions:
h1= 250 mm b1= 150 mm
h2= 350 mm b2= 300 mm

Concrete, f’c= 27.5 MPa

Consider bending about line 1. Neglect the concrete area displaced by the compressive steel.

21. Determine the location (mm) of the geometric centroid of the section from line 1, along the x-axis.
a. 216 b. 248 c. 272 d. 289

22. Determine the location (mm) of the plastic centroid of the section from line 1, along the x-axis. For
all bars use fs=fy.
b. 216 b. 248 c. 272 d. 289

23. If the T-section is reinforced such that the plastic centroid of the section falls at 280 mm from line 1
along the x-axis determine the bending moment, Mu (kN-m) induced by a factored load, Pu = 3200
kN along the x-axis.
c. 264 kN-m b. 295 kN-m c. 315 kN-m d. 384 kN-m

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Situation 7: Given the following data for the plan shown in the figure.

Dead Load: 3.0 kPa

Live Load: 4.8 kPa

Clear Spans of beams:

L1=L2=L3= 6 m

Spacing of beams:
S2= 2.5 m

24. Find the maximum positive moment at span FG due to dead load.
d. 16.875 kN-m b. 17.595 kN-m c. 18.125 kN-m d. 20.214 kN-m

25. What is the maximum negative moment at span EF due to live load?
e. -34.64 kN-m b. -37.75 kN-m c. -40.12 kN-m d. -43.20 kN-m

26. How much is the maximum shear in span FG due to dead load and live load?
f. 36.4 kN b. 39.5 kN-m c. 40.75 kN d. 58.5 kN

Situation 8: A decorative concrete beam with a tubular section is simply supported on a span of 4.5 m.
Concrete weighs 24 kN/m.
27. Compute the cracking moment of the tubular section if it has an outside diameter of 600 mm and an
inside diameter of 300 mm if its allowable cracking stress is 3.22 MPa.

a. 56.4 kN-m b. 64.01 kN-m c. 70.85 kN-m d. 88.5 kN-m

28. In addition to its own weight, what concentrated load at midspan can the beam safely carry before it
cracks.
a. 39.4 kN b. 42.5 kN-m c. 45.4 kN d. 54.2 kN

29. If the 300 mm diameter hollow core were replaced by a 300 mm hollow square section, calculate the
cracking moment.
a. 56.4 kN-m b. 61.04 kN-m c. 68.85 kN-m d. 78.5 kN-m

Situation 9. From the given floor plan, the following data are obtained:
DL= 4.8 kPa (weight of the slab included)
LL = 2.9 kPa
U= 1.4 DL + 1.7 LL

Dimensions and Stresses:

Beam b x h = 300 x 400 mm
Clear concrete cover to slab reinforcement = 20 mm
Slab reinforcement = 10 mm diameter
Slab thickness = 100 mm
S =2.8 m
L= 6.0 m
30. Determine the ultimate negative moment of the slab at the span bounded by FGJK.
a. 6.07 kN-m b. 7.04 kN-m c. 8.15 kN-m d. 6.95 kN-m
31. Determine the ultimate positive moment of the slab at the span bounded by FGJK.
a. 3.54 kN-m b. 4.55 kN-m c. 5.85 kN-m d. 6.15 kN-m
32. Determine the maximum spacing of the 10 mm diameter bars as prescribed by design codes.
a. 300 mm b. 350 mm c. 400 mm d. 450 mm
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Situation 10: The flooring of a warehouse is made up of double-tee joist as shown. The joists are simply
supported on a span of 7.5 m and are pre-tensioned with one tendon in each stem with an initial force of
745 kN each, located at 75 mm above the bottom fiber, loss of stress at service load is 18%.
Loads imposed on the joist are:
Dead Load = 2.3 kPa
Live Load= 6 kPa
Properties of DT:
A= 200,000 mm2
I= 1880 x 106 mm2
yt= 88 mm
yb= 267 mm
a= 2.4 m

33. Compute the stress at the bottom fibers of the DT at mid-span due to the initial pre stressing force
alone.
a. 48.08 MPa b. -48.08 MPa c. 40.63 MPa d. -40.63 MPa

34. Compute the resulting stress at the bottom fibers of the DT at mid-span due to the service loads
and pre stress force.
a. -19.89 MPa b. 19.89 MPa c. -19.54 MPa d. 19.54 MPa

35. What additional super imposed load can the DT carry such that the resulting stress at the bottom
fibers at mid-span is zero.
a. 17.85 MPa b. 21.89 MPa c. 18.54 MPa d. 19.57 MPa

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