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Critical Section for Shear in RCC Cantilever Beam

Critical Section for Shear in RCC Cantilever Beam

Critical Section for Shear in RCC Cantilever Beam

(OP)
Hello,

I am working on designing a RCC cantilever beam and this is probably a very beginner's question but I am trying to understand where the critical section is for a RCC cantilever beam. Would it be at the face of the support because there is no compressive force from the support? I have seen some examples online that use the max shear value at a distance d from the support but this doesn't seem right. Any thoughts?

Thank you

RE: Critical Section for Shear in RCC Cantilever Beam

What you might be missing is that the shear failure section is at a 45 degree angle. For a crack to form at the face of the support at the bottom of a slab, the top end of the crack is a distance away from the support equal to d.

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RE: Critical Section for Shear in RCC Cantilever Beam

(OP)
I understand that the crack formed would be at an angle. But, in which cases do we take the critical section to be at the face of the support? Also, wouldn’t it be more conservative to always take the higher shear value produced at the support location (for simply supported and cantilever beams)?

RE: Critical Section for Shear in RCC Cantilever Beam

It is more conservative to take the shear at the support and also makes calculation much simpler, so it is not uncommon/bad to use the shear at the support as the design value. Generally speaking for concrete there is no requirement to do this however. If the crack was any closer to the support (i.e. the crack starts passing through the column) the column itself will resist the shear/vertical forces and the section is not critical. I've probably worded this wrong in a technical sense if someone could correct me dazed

Thinking about it in very abstract terms, the slab isn't going to fall through the column, and the column is going to be able to take the vertical load by design.

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