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Manual For Design of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures To EC2 (Eurocode) 2

The document discusses guidelines for structural design including: 1. Allowances for partition loadings of 1.0 kN/m2 for demountable partitions and 2.5 kN/m2 for blockwork partitions. 2. Reinforced concrete should be designed using a weight of 24 kN/m3 and load values from Table 3.1. 3. Material properties including assuming a concrete cylinder strength of 25N/mm2 for initial UK design and reinforcement yields of 460N/mm2 for high-tensile steel and 250N/mm2 for mild steel.

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Manual For Design of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures To EC2 (Eurocode) 2

The document discusses guidelines for structural design including: 1. Allowances for partition loadings of 1.0 kN/m2 for demountable partitions and 2.5 kN/m2 for blockwork partitions. 2. Reinforced concrete should be designed using a weight of 24 kN/m3 and load values from Table 3.1. 3. Material properties including assuming a concrete cylinder strength of 25N/mm2 for initial UK design and reinforcement yields of 460N/mm2 for high-tensile steel and 250N/mm2 for mild steel.

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Allowance for:

demountable lightweight partitions* 1.0kN/m2


blockwork partitions† 2.5kN/m2
Weight of reinforced concrete should be taken as 24kN/m3.
Design loads should be obtained using Table 3.1.

4.3 Material properties


For normal construction in the UK, a characteristic cylinder concrete strength fck of
25N/mm2 should be assumed for the initial design. In areas with poor aggregates this may
have to be reduced.
For UK steels a characteristic strength ƒyk of 460N/mm2 should be used for high-tensile
reinforcement and 250N/mm2 for mild steel.

4.4 Structural form and framing


The following measures should be adopted:
(a) provide stability against lateral forces and ensure braced construction by arranging
suitable shear walls deployed symmetrically wherever possible
(b) adopt a simple arrangement of slabs, beams and columns so that loads are carried to
the foundations by the shortest and most direct routes
(c) allow for movement joints (see subsection 2.4)
(d) choose an arrangement that will limit the span of slabs to 5m to 6m and beam spans
to 8m to l0m on a regular grid; for flat slabs restrict column spacings to 8m
(e) adopt a minimum column size of 300mm × 300mm or equivalent area
(f) provide a robust structure.
The arrangement should take account of possible large openings for services and problems
with foundations, e.g. columns immediately adjacent to site boundaries may require bal-
anced or other special foundations.

4.5 Fire resistance and durability


The size of structural members may be governed by the requirement of fire resistance
and may also be affected by the cover necessary to ensure durability. Table 4.1 shows the
minimum practical member sizes for different periods of fire resistance and the cover
to the main reinforcement required for continuous members in dry and humid environ-
ments without frost. For other exposure classes, cover should be increased. For simply
supported members, sizes and cover should be increased (see Section 5 and
Appendix C).

4.6 Stiffness
To provide adequate stiffness, the effective depths of beams, slabs and the waist of stairs
should not be less than those derived from Table 4.2.
Beams should be of sufficient depth to avoid the necessity for excessive compression
reinforcement and to ensure that economical amounts of tension and shear reinforcement
are provided. This will also facilitate the placing of concrete.

*To be treated as imposed loads.


†To be treated as dead loads when the layout is fixed.

IStructE EC2 (Concrete) Design Manual 19

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