reinforced concrete stress analysis

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Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on May 18, 2014 at 11:04pm

Hi Nicholas,

the conventional way would be to do a linear elastic shell analysis, determine the cross section forces throughout the shell and then use these to calculate the necessary amount reinforcement. The latter could be done using e.g. Response2000 (see http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~bentz/home.shtml).

In order to take into account non-linear effects like buckling, creep and cracking you should use a sufficient safety factor for the cross section forces. Depending on the geometry of the structure this factor can be 2 to 4.

Clemens