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Please can anyboby load for me the shaded beam from the attached drawing? I slabs are 200mm thick and beam size is 230mm wide and 600mm high measured from top of slab to bottom of beam (to be casted monolithically). I just want to convive my self with slab to beam loading method Im using!!

Table 63 from Reinforced concrete designer's Handbook tenth edition by Charles E. Reynolds and James c. Steedman can help. Good luck.

ok thanks once again hokie66. According to your answer the beam is parrallel lo lx. Thanks once again! Anybody with different idea.

Most of rural areas in Africa do not use codes and they do not design buildings. What they do they just construct reffering the historical function of existing buildings. People are lucky in rural ares because no multi storey buildings needed as the land is vast. Im a Tanzanian and we are using...

Thanx hokie66, your anser wil be more usefull if you tell be wether its parallel to lx or ly. English is not my mothe tongue, please help. I think you are still online.

hi everyone. When somebody says a beam is spanning in direction lx of the slab, what does he exactly mean? That a beam is parallel to lx length or ly length? Note: lx is shorter distance while ly is longer one. Thanks in advance.

Thanks JadeClampett

Thanks all. Just waiting to hear more from you.

If i want to design a nornal framed structure comprising of beams and columns without having anything particular for resisting horizontal forces apart from beams and columns. How should I treat the columns, braced or unbraced? Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone. I need to build a generator shed and in a process I have to cut a hole through iron sheets for generator exhaust pipe. I dont know which is good material to use to seal between the exhaust and the iron sheet to avoid leakage. A material which is heat resistant and flexible enough to...

Thanks SteveMort, I agree with you, its not a cantiliver wall because its supported at the top. If you look at my original question I called the wall as 'Propped retaining wall' because it has been propped at the top and it retains earth material. Im asking why should I just reinforce one face...

thanks all for valuable information. DaveAtirks the wall is cantilever and lateral supported at top. The height of which is about 2.5m high. It retains a lot of backfill soil.

Im just to design a propped retaining wall. My superior wants one face reinforcements but I think that is not propper as propped retaining wall experience both positive and negative moment. I preffer putting reinforcements at both faces, near and far face. Please advice!

using British standard you just take span ratio, if its >2 then design as one way otherwise 2way slab. Main bars span short lengh.

your procedure is ok. I think you have taken all neccessary precaution. The footing shall carry all loads perfectly. Although bonding the concrete is not that much critical(bottom bars embedded 30cm into concrete!!!) but if bonding agents are available just use them.