Example 3.

Design Load on two floors beams and a pillar for the ULS of Strength
Q: Loading computation. A composite floor consisting of 150 mm thick (hp) reinforced concrete slab supported on two directions steel beams spanning 5 m and spaced at 3 m centers is to be designed to carry a live imposed load (q) of 3.5 kN.m-2. Assuming that: the unit mass of reinforced concrete () is 2400 kg.m-3, and the gravitational constant (g) is 10 m.s-2, and the unit mass of steel beam is 50 kg.m-1 run, and the pillar cross-section is 400 mm x 600 mm, and the pillar height is 3 m, and the partial safety factors for loads (f) are 1.4 (for DL) and 1.6 (for LL), (i) Compute the unit weight of the reinforced concrete, (ii) Compute the load per unit length of the steel beam, (iii) Compute the slab ultimate load, (iv) Compute the main beam (joist) ultimate load, (v) Compute the secondary beam ultimate load, (vi) Compute the pillar ultimate load, (vii) Compute the design load acting on a secondary beam A1-A2 that supports an ultimate uniformly distributed load from slab hatched loaded area plus self-weight, (viii) Compute the design load acting on internal (standard) main beam (joist) A2-B2 that supports an ultimate uniformly distributed load from slab hatched loaded area plus self-weight, (ix) Compute the design load acting on pillar (column) A2.

Figure no. 3 Modular Rules for Sitting Axes in Layout

module M=100 mm m=integer multiple 1,2,..,A,B,.. modular axes=modular grid D1,2,3,4 Details
0.5b 0.5b 0.5a 0.5a b

LT=mM

bay

D3

D4

steel main beam (joist)

reinforced concrete column (pillar)

LT=mM

bay

h e2 0.5h 0.5h

c2

0.5a 0.5a

0.5a 0.5a steel secondary beam

D1
0.5a 0.5a e1

D2

c1

D=mM span

Beam A2-A3

Figure no. 4 Layout

3 LT bay

Details
a a-a
0.5LT hp

Beam A2-B2

Beam A1-A2

Pillar A2

LT=3 m

Main loaded area

Secondary loaded area

D=5 m span B

A D=5 m

RA2-B2
RA1-A2

RB2-A2
LT=3 m RA3-A2 Secondary loaded area is: 3x1.5x0.5 = 2.25 m2 Main loaded area is: 3x5-2x2.25 =10.50 m2

LT=3 m

RA2-A1 RA2-A3

A:
Unit Weight of the RC (reinforced concrete) as building material is =g=(2400)(10)=24000 N.m-3 Load per Unit Length of Steel beam is (50)(10)=500 N.m-1 run Ultimate Loadings: Slab Slab dead load (self-weight) is gk=(hp)(g)=(0.15)(24) Slab imposed (live) load is qk Slab ultimate load is 1.4gk+1.6qk=(1.4)(3.6)+(1.6)(3.5) =24 kN.m-3. =0.5 kN.m-1.

=3.6 kN.m-2. =3.5 kN.m-2. =10.64 kN.m-2.

Beam Beam dead load (self-weight per unit length) is gk Beam ultimate load is 1.4gk=(1.4)(0.5)
Pillar (Column) Column dead load (self-weight per unit height) is gk=(b)(h)(g)=(0.40)(0.60)(24) Column ultimate load is 1.4 gk=(1.4)(5.7)

=0.5 kN.m-1 run. =0.7 kN.m-1 run.

=5.7 kN.m-1 run. =8.0 kN.m-1 run.

Design Loads Joist (main beam) A2-B2 Design load on joist beam A2-B2 is= slab ultimate load x floor loaded area + self-weight of beam x beam length= Gd+Qd=(10.64)(10.50)+(0.7)(5)=111.7+3.5= 115.2 kN. Since the beam is symmetrically loaded, the reactions RA2-B2 and RB2-A2 are the same and equal to (0.5)(115.2) =57.6 kN. Secondary beam A1-A2 Design load on secondary beam A1-A2 is= slab ultimate load x floor loaded area + self-weight of beam x beam length= Gd+Qd=(10.64)(2.25)+(0.7)(3)=23.9+2.1 =26.0 kN. Since the beam is symmetrically loaded, the reactions RA1-A2 and RA2-A1 are the same and equal to (0.5)(26.0) =13.0 kN. Pillar A2 supports the reactions from beams A2-B2 and A1-A2, and A2-A3 and self weight of pillar per unit height multiplied by height. Design load on pillarA2 is= reaction RA2-B2+reaction RA2-A1+ reaction RA2-A3 +self-weight of pillar x pillar height= 57.6+(2)(13.0)+(8.0)(3) =107.6 kN.

Live Full Load on the Floors

on the balcony plate on the room floor on the staircase qk=5000 qk=1500 qk=3000

qd=F0 qk=(1.50)(0.7)qk (N.m-2) Q: Draw 2 patterns: full loading and partial in check loading.

Partitions Load on the Floors

If d.h..g=p1500 N.m-1 1500<p3000 3000<p5000 5000<p
equivalent uniformly distributed load

500 N.m-2 1000 1500 pk=(Vnet. .g ) / (L1L2) pk=

L1, L2 Vnet floor dimensions with internal size net volume of partitions of one room

pd=Fpk =(1.50)pk (N.m-2) Q: for the kitchen, draw the pattern in 3 different sections and compute the partitions load.