Question: In a light industrial building, a simply supported rectangular Precast Prestressed Concrete Beam ( PPCB ) of 6 0 0 m m width x 4

In a light industrial building, a simply supported rectangular Precast Prestressed Concrete Beam (PPCB) of 600mm width x400mm depth and spanning 8m, is supporting Precast Pretensioned Hollow-Core Slab (HCS),200mm thick with span length 6m. Assume all the concrete grade used is C40/50 to Eurocode 2 design. The support condition is unpropped. The stages of construction for the PPCB at critical midspan are shown below in Figure Q-2:
(a)Stage 1: Construction Stage
Placement of HCS on the rectangular PPCB and casting of concrete infill into the HCS.
Unfactored self-weight of HCS
(Including cast in-situ infill
& construction live loads)=4.0kPa
Unfactored self-weight of the PPCB
(b)Stage 2: Final/Service/Operation
Stage
Placement of superimposed dead load (SDL) due to partition, finishes, M&E services on HCS=2.5kPa
Live Load =3.0kPa
Figure Q-2 Midspan Section View of (a) Construction Stage 1 and (b) Final Stage 2 of a composite PPCB with 1.2m effective width of flange built from HCS
The sectional properties at midspan are shown below:
Moment of inertia of the rectangular PPCB,Ico=3200106mm4
Distance from centroid of rectangular PPCB to soffit/ bottommost fiber of the beam, yb=190mm.
Moment of inertia of the composite PPCB,Icc,co=8457106mm4
Distance from centroid of the composite PPBC to soffit / bottommost fiber of the beam, ybc,co=378mm.
It is given that the composite PPCB has a final stress after accounting for prestress losses at its bottom fibre (b) of 13Nmm2(compression) and topmost fibre (t) of -4Nmm2(tension).
(a) Show that the Stage 1 and Stage 2 service moment due to loadings acting at midspan of the PPCB, are for Stage 1) and for Stage 2)
[4 Marks]
(b)Compute the following section properties for the PPCB and its composites
(i) Section modulus of rectangular PPCB at top fibre, Zt,co
(ii) Section modulus of rectangular PPCB at bottom fibre, Zb,co
(iii) Section modulus of the composite PPCB section at bottom fibre, Zbc,co
(iv) Section modulus of the composite PPCB section at top of the rectangular PPCB,Zt,co
(v) Section modulus of the composite PPCB section at topmost fibre, Z'teco
[10 Marks]
(c) Check and comment the PPCB composite section for allowable permissible service stresses for combined Stage 1 and Stage 2 loadings based on the following EC2 criteria. From EC2 Table 3.1, mean concrete tensile strength, fctm=3.5MPa.
(i) magnitude of bottom fibre stress of PPCB composite, ft0.45fckf'0.567fckifb
[4 Marks]
(ii) magnitude of top fibre stress of composite at top of rectangular PPCB,ft0.45fck[4 Marks]
(iii) magnitude of top fibre stress ofat topmost fibre of composite PPCB,f'0.567fcki
In a light industrial building, a simply

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