Concrete Beam Design

Concrete Beams - Design Practices

Several Methods for beam design have been provided below including:

• Flexural Design
  • Find Moment Capacity Given Concrete Beam Cross Section
    • Concrete Beam Design Spreadsheet (Calculator) (flexural checks only)
  • Find Tension Steel Given Dimensions Only
  • Design a Concrete T-Beam
    • Concrete T-Beam Design Spreadsheet (Calculator) (flexural checks only)
  • Check that minimum flexural steel is achieved
  • Check that maximum flexural steel is not exceeded
• Shear Design
  • Simple Method
  • Complex Method
  • Shear Capacity from Steel Stirrups
  • Shear Checks
  • Shear Stirrup Spacing
• Deflection
  • Cracking Moment
  • Effective Moment Of Inertia
  • Concrete Long Term Deflection

Fig. 1: A Concrete Beam Diagram at the Balanced Condition