Design of Singly Reinforced Beam in Excel Spreadsheet

Design of Singly Reinforced Beam

Singly reinforced rectangular concrete beams are simple concrete beams with reinforcement only in the tensile zone at one side of the beam. This is usually at the bottom of a concrete beam when the beam is sagging under load, though sometimes it can be at the top of the beam if the beam is always hogging.

Concrete beams with more complex loadings sometimes require structural reinforcement at both the top and the bottom of the beam. This is common in cases with complex loadings and in continuous beams where the beam will experience both sagging and hogging forces at different times. Doubly reinforced concrete beam design is more complicated and can be designed using our CivilWeb Doubly Reinforced Beam Design Excel Spreadsheet.

Concrete beams are also often T shaped which is a more efficient design for heavily loaded beams and beams supporting floor slabs. T shaped beams can be designed using the T Shaped RCC Beam Design Excel Sheet spreadsheet. The T Shaped RCC Beam Design Excel Sheet and CivilWeb Doubly Reinforced Beam Design Excel Spreadsheet spreadsheets along with the Beam Analysis Spreadsheet are included with the RCC beam design xls in the CivilWeb Reinforced Concrete Beam Design Excel Bundle which can be purchased at the bottom of this page for only £30.

Rectangular singly reinforced concrete beams are very common in all types of concrete buildings and structures. Some buildings will require hundreds of different singly reinforced beams to be designed. In many cases the beams are designed in groups in order to simplify the design process. The CivilWeb Design of Singly Reinforced Beam in Excel Spreadsheet allows each beam to be designed and optimised in minutes, allowing savings to be made by avoiding the overdesign of the beams.

CivilWeb Design of Singly Reinforced Beam in Excel Spreadsheet - Inputs

Firstly the designer must input the loading conditions. The CivilWeb Design of Singly Reinforced Beam in Excel Spreadsheet allows the designer to input maximum bending forces and shear forces from a separate beam analysis. A simple spreadsheet such as the CivilWeb Beam Analysis spreadsheet which is included in the CivilWeb Reinforced Concrete Beam Design Excel Bundle which can be purchased at the bottom of this page.

Next the designer must input a trial beam design which the spreadsheet will analyse. This can be taken from experience of similar beams or simply guessed. The spreadsheet analyses the suitability of the beam instantly. The spreadsheet also presents the designer with a unique graphs showing how the beam design can be optimised.

Once the designer has finalised the dimensions of the beam the spreadsheet can be used to design the reinforcement. The spreadsheet includes a unique reinforcement suggestion tool which shows the designer on a graph exactly which combinations of reinforcement bar size and spacing are best suited to the beam. These calculations are completed in accordance with BS 8110.

The CivilWeb Design of Singly Reinforced Beam in Excel Spreadsheet includes our unique reinforcement picker tool. The spreadsheet presents the designer with a chart which shows the designer all the potentially suitable combinations of bar sizes and numbers which satisfy both the cross sectional area of steel required, and the maximum and minimum spacing requirements. This can be done in accordance with either BS EN 1992 or BS 8110. The designer can then simply select their preferred bar size and number from the options presented on the chart.

CivilWeb Design of Singly Reinforced Beam in Excel Spreadsheet

The CivilWeb Design of Singly Reinforced Beam in Excel Spreadsheet can be used to design singly reinforced concrete beams in accordance with BS 8110. The spreadsheet includes unique design and analysis tools which allow the designer to complete the design of a singly reinforced concrete beam in minutes.

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