I have been tasked with designing a 12m span single carriageway highway bridge deck. The deck construction details have been left entirely down to me and being more form an environmental background i am very uncertain as where to look or how to go about the design, other than knowing it must be...
Hi, Just a few questions:
1. For a singly reinforced concrete beam, why is a minimum percentage area (100As/bh) of tensile reinforcement required?
2. Why is the maximum value of the lever arm (la = z/d) limited to 0.95?
Thanks.