Concrete Column Design

A reinforced concrete column is a structural member designed to carry compressive loads composed of concrete with an embedded steel frame to provide reinforcement.

Concrete column design. General rules for buildings. Short columns and slender columns. Columns are used as major elements in trusses building frames and sub structure supports for bridges e g. The majority of reinforced concrete columns in practice are subjected to very little secondary stresses associated with column deformations.

These columns are designed as short columns using the column interaction diagrams presented in chapter 3. The concrete column module designs concrete rectangular or circular columns against axial uniaxial or biaxial bending as well as shear based on aci 318 02 05 08 11 14 code provisions. The program generates exact not approximate or empirical p mx my interaction surfaces for all sections according to user specified design criteria. Diagonal and horizontal compression elements in a truss.

This article is a structural overview of concrete column design when subject to axial loads and bending moments. Columns are structural compression members which transmit loads from the upper. In the last post we analysed a concrete column in a frame structure for vertical actions. Columns are usually considered as vertical structural elements but they can be positioned in any orientation e g.

The design of reinforced concrete columns and beams is very important to provide structural strength to a building and particularly to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters. However the column was not designed because the design of columns has not been presented before. Reinforced concrete columns a column is a very important component in a structure. It is like the legs on which a structure stands.

It is designed to resist axial and lateral forces and transfer them safely to the footings in the ground. Secondary stresses associated with deformations are usually very small in most columns used in practice. The subject of this post is the design of reinforced concrete columns to bs en 1992 1 1 eurocode 2. Here we look at the design of columns and beams the placement of the concrete and steel and how these give structural strength.

Design of concrete structures part 1 1. For design purposes the columns are separated into two categories. Columns are the major elements in reinforced concrete structures and the safety and stability of the structure greatly depends on it. Axial loads and bending moments.