Reinforced Concrete Beams and Slabs

Reinforced concrete is two materials working together because one of them fails in tension and the other fails in compression. Every calculation in this guide turns on where the boundary between them sits inside the section, and on making sure that failure — if it comes — begins in the steel and not in the concrete. Materials and strength reduction factors, flexure in the rectangular section with the reinforcement limits and the tension-controlled condition, T-sections and doubly reinforced sections, shear and stirrups, one-way and two-way slabs, immediate and long-term deflection and crack control, development length splices and bar cut-off, then checking a bar schedule by the steel ratio. 10 fully worked examples, every number checked. To ACI 318-19 · ACI 318M-19, SBC 304, EN 1992-1-1. 30 pages · Level EL 200 · Revision A. Whoever owns revision A receives every later revision free.