Reinforcement detailing is a very important step is structural design.
It is the structural detailing that will convey your intended structural design to site. If your structural detailing of members is not good enough to convey what your design is, then there is no much use of the design.
Many students focus on structural analysis and tools needed for it like ETABS and STAAD Pro
Even knowing the tools that will help you to detail is not adequate. You need to know all the basic principles of rebar detailing to be the best structural engineer. Also remember that a client will not know what great analysis you have done or what optimisation in design you have done unless the drawing speaks for your design. A client sees only your drawing! So give adequate importance to it.
You should be knowing why we need
Minimum reinforcement in a beam and how much it is
Why we need reinforcement at side faces if the web depth of the beam is more than 750
Why you are limiting the reinforcement to a maximum allowable percentage
Why we restrict the spacing of rebars
Why we stagger laps
Why we need anchorage length
Why some times we need additional rebars at openings
In this vlog, I am discussing a question posted by a civil engineering student on two methods of reinforcement detailing for beams. He has sketched one detail with two rebars and another with three rebars in one layer. I have tried to explain most of the principles in this and hope you will learn something new from it.
If you have any questions, please feel free to discuss in this forum threadReinforcement detailing is a very important step is structural design.
It is the structural detailing that will convey your intended structural design to site. If your structural detailing of members is not good enough to convey what your design is, then there is no much use of the design.
Many students focus on structural analysis and tools needed for it like ETABS and STAAD Pro
Even knowing the tools that will help you to detail is not adequate. You need to know all the basic principles of rebar detailing to be the best structural engineer. Also remember that a client will not know what great analysis you have done or what optimisation in design you have done unless the drawing speaks for your design. A client sees only your drawing! So give adequate importance to it.
You should be knowing why we need
Minimum reinforcement in a beam and how much it is
Why we need reinforcement at side faces if the web depth of the beam is more than 750
Why you are limiting the reinforcement to a maximum allowable percentage
Why we restrict the spacing of rebars
Why we stagger laps
Why we need anchorage length
Why some times we need additional rebars at openings
In this vlog, I am discussing a question posted by a civil engineering student on two methods of reinforcement detailing for beams. He has sketched one detail with two rebars and another with three rebars in one layer. I have tried to explain most of the principles in this and hope you will learn something new from it.
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