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Lateral members that receives vertical load
Beams
Footing
Slabs
Usually vertical, you staying close or separate spaces
Beams
Wall
Slabs
Considered as a wide, shallow, rectangular beam.
Wall
Beams
Slabs
Used to support column or wall and transmit their load to the underlying soils.
Footing
Wall
Beams
Mixture of Portland cement or any other hydraulic cement, fine aggregate, course aggregates, and water, with or without admixtures.
Concrete
Beams
Slabs
Designed on the assumption that the two materials act together in resisting forces. no less than the minimum amount required, prestressed or non prestressed and designed on the assumption that the two
materials act together in resisting forces.
Reinforced Concrete
Plain Concrete
Pre-cast Concrete
Concrete that does not conform to definition of reinforced concrete.
Pre-cast Concrete
Reinforced Concrete
Plain Concrete
Plain or reoinforced concrete element cast elsewhere that it's final position in structure.
Plain Concrete
Pre-cast Concrete
Reinforced Concrete
Lightweight concrete has an air dry unit weight not exceeding * kg/cu.m.
1700
1800
1900
1600
Heavyweight concrete weighing up to about * kn/m³
40.5
50.5
60.5
70.5
Granular materials, such as sand, gravel, crush stone, etc.
Aggregate
Sand
Gravel
Materials retained from sieve no.4 (greater than 6mm)
Course aggregates
Fine aggregates
Passes through sieve number no. 4 (6mm in size)
Course aggregates
Fine aggregates
Binding agent of concrete primarily or mortar.
Cement
Sand
Gravel
Use in mixing concrete shall be clean and free from injurious amount of oils, acids, alkalis, etc.
Water
Sand
Aggregates
Material other than water, aggregate or cement, Use an ingredient of concrete added to the concrete before or during it's mixing.
Sand
Admixture
Gravel
Shall be deformed, except that plain reinforcement be permitted for spiral or tendon
Metal reinforcement
Steel reinforcement
Spiral reinforcement
Continuously wound rainforcement in the form of a cylindrical helix.
Spiral reinforcement
Metal reinforcement
Steel reinforcement
The most important in most critical tasks of an engineer is the determination of the * that can be applied to a structure during its life.
Loads
Slab
Column
Beam
Loop of reinforcing bar or wore enclosing longitudinal reinforcement.
TIE
STIRRUPS
TENDON
Reinforcement used to resist shear and torsion stresses in a structural member.
TIE
TENDON
STIRRUPS
Steel element such as wire, cable, bar, rod, or strand or a bundle of such elements,
used to impart prestress to concrete.
STIRRUPS
TENDON
TIE
Reinforcement that does not conform to the definition of
deformed reinforcement
SPIRAL REINFORCEMENT
PLAIN REINFORCEMENT
METAL REINFORCEMENT
Distance measured from extreme compression fiber to centroid of tension reinforcement.
EFFECTIVE WIDTH OF SECTION
EFFECTIVE DEPTH OF SECTION
EFFECTIVE LENGTH OF SECTION
Loads of constant magnitude that remain in one position. This consists mainly of the weight of the structure and other permanent attachments to the frame.
FACTORED LOAD
LIVELOAD
DEADLOAD
Move under their own power are called moving loads. Other live loads are those caused by wind, rain,
earthquakes, soils and temperature changes.
DEADLOAD
LIVELOAD
LATERAL LOADS
Winds and earthquake loads.
LIVELOAD
LATERAL LOADS
FACTORED LOAD
Load multiplied by appropriate load factors, used to proportion
members by the strength design method.
LATERAL LOADS
FACTORED LOAD
DEADLOAD
Ratio of normal stress to corresponding strain for tensile or
compressive stresses below proportional limit.
MODULUS OF RIGIDITY
MODULUS OF ELASTICITY
MODULUS OF RUPTURE
Nominal strength multiplied by a strength reduction
factor.
ULTIMATE STRENGTH DESIGN
ULTIMATE STRENGTH ANALYSIS
Strength of a member or cross-section before application of any strength reduction factors.
REQUIRED STRENGTH
NOMINAL STRENGTH
Strength of a member or cross section required to resist factored loads or related internal moments and
forces in such combinations.
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH
REQUIRED STRENGTH
NOMINAL STRENGTH
Is a continued deformation with time under sustained loads at unit stresses within
an accepted elastic range
CREEP
STIRRUPS
TIE
Occurs when and applied force cause change in dimension to a
material.
Stress
Strain
Support
Defined as change in dimension with respect to original
dimension, when material is stressed.
Support
Stress
Strain
A state that it will regain its original shape or length when the body or steel is unloaded.
Elastic Limit
Yield Limit
Proportional Limit
Is reached when a material is loaded beyond its elastic limit, or simply it will not regain its original shape
when unloaded.
Ultimate Stress
Elastic Limit
Yield Limit
The maximum stress a material can carry.
Necking Down
Ultimate Stress
Yield Limit
In some references it is referred to as Rupture Point, it is a
point on the stress strain curve where material fails, is
known as breaking point.
Proportional Limit
Necking Down
Elastic Limit
Is observed along the graph that shows stress directly followed
the strain. This means ratio of stress and strain remains constant.
Proportional Limit
Elastic Limit
Yield Limit
Deformed and Plain Billet-Steel Bars for Concrete Reinforcement
ASTM A36
ASTM A615
ASTM A706
Low-Alloy Steel Bars for Concrete Reinforcement
ASTM A36
ASTM A615
ASTM A706
Are forces or other actions that result from the weight of all building materials, occupants and their possessions, environmental effects, differential movements, and restrained
dimensional changes.
Weight
Loads
Forces
Is an assemblage of framing members designed to support gravity loads and
resist lateral forces.
Forces
Structure
Loads
Steels with carbon contents less than * are considered to be readily
weldable
0.35
0.45
0.55
Are the vertical forces applied to a structure. These loads are either in placed or moving. It is a critical task for an engineer to determine all possible loads that may affect the
structure.
Wind Loads
Gravity Loads
Earthquake Loads
Is a method of proportioning and designing structural members such that elastically computed
stresses produced in the members by nominal loads do not exceed specified allowable stress.
Allowable Stress Design (ASD)
Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD)
Is a method of proportioning and designing structural elements using loads and resistance factors such that no applicable limit state is reached when the structure is subjected to all appropriate load combination.
Allowable Stress Design (ASD)
Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD)
- Occupancies having surgery and emergency treatment areas.
- Garages and shelters for emergency vehicles and emergency aircraft
- Public school buildings
- Tanks or other structures containing housing or supporting water or other
fire-suppression material
SPECIAL OCCUPANCY STRUCTURES
ESSENTIAL FACILITIES
STANDARD OCCUPANCY STRUCTURES
Private garages, carports, sheds, and fences over 1.5m high
ESSENTIAL FACILITIES
MISCELLANEOUS STRUCTURES
SPECIAL OCCUPANCY STRUCTURES
- Buildings with an assembly room with an occupant capacity of 1,000 or more
- Educational buildings such as museums, libraries, auditorium with a
capacity of 300 or more occupants
- Churches, mosques, and other religious facilities
ESSENTIAL FACILITIES
MISCELLANEOUS STRUCTURES
SPECIAL OCCUPANCY STRUCTURES
Member, usually vertical, used to enclose or separate spaces.
FOOTING
WALL
COLUMN
BEAM
Has an air – dry unitweight not exceeding 1900 kg/ cu.m. It is
a concrete lighter in weight that ordinary sand – and – gravel concrete is used principally to
reduce dead load, or for thermal insulation, nailability or fill.
LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE
HEAVYWEIGHT CONCRETE
PLAIN CONCRETE
PRE-CAST CONCRETE
Prestressing tendon that is bonded to concrete either directly or
through grouting.
STRIPPED TENDON
BONDED TENDON
JOINED TENDON
Are live loads which are mainly acting on the structure horizontally. Typical are wind load which contacts on a structure’s facade, an earthquake, which is a shaking of the ground, and commonly acts under the ground.
Lateral Loads
Gravity Loads
Tributary Loads
Are the vertical forces applied to a structure. These
loads are either in placed or moving. It is a critical task for an
engineer to determine all possible loads that may affect the
structure.
Gravity Loads
Lateral Loads
Tributary Loads
Is a method of proportioning and designing structural members such that elastically computed stresses produced in the members by nominal loads do not exceed specified allowable stress. It is also known as
working stress design.
Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD)
Allowable Stress Design (ASD)
Is a method of proportioning and designing structural elements using loads and resistance factors such that no applicable limit state is reached when the structure is subjected to all appropriate load combination. This is mostly used in the design of steel structures.
Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD)
Allowable Stress Design (ASD)
Are forces or other actions that result from the weight of all building materials, occupants and their possessions, environmental effects, differential movements, and restrained dimensional changes.
Member
Loads
Structure
Is an assemblage of framing members designed to
support gravity loads and resist lateral forces.
Loads
Structure
Member
Occupancies having surgery and emergency treatment areas, Fire and police stations,
Garages and shelters for emergency, vehicles and emergency aircraft
Structures and shelters in emergency preparedness centers, Aviation control towers,
Special Occupancy
Structures
Standard Occupancy
Structures
Essential Facilities
Occupancies and structures housing or
supporting toxic or explosive chemicals or
substances,
Non – building structures storing,
supporting or containing quantities of
toxic or explosive substances,
Hazardous Facilities
Special Occupancy
Structures
Essential Facilities
Buildings with an assembly room with an
occupant capacity of 10,000 or more,
Educational buildings such as museums,
libraries, auditorium with a capacity of 300
or more occupants,
Buildings used for college or adult
education with a capacity of 500 or more
occupants,
Standard Occupancy
Structures
Special Occupancy
Structures
Essential Facilities
All structures housing occupancies or
having functions not listed in Category I,
II, or III and Category V
Standard Occupancy
Structures
Miscellaneous
Structures
Essential Facilities
Private garages, carports, shed and fences
over 1.5 m high
Hazardous Facilities
Essential Facilities
Miscellaneous
Structures
