Requirement

Control Building :Wall RCW1&2 : Thermal shrinkage considerations for concrete pours due to heat of hydration.
Report on concrete placement temperature & pour thickness is referred.
Location :
Control Building Basement
Length of pour of concrete (L) :
11800 mm
Report no. is TAPP-3&4/TCE.2191/DR/CV/24000/16.
full length of wall
Width of pour of concrete (B) :
800 mm
& (L/H) is:
3.93
> 2.5
for this pour size.
Overall depth of concrete: (H)
3000 mm
Height of pour of concrete (H') :
1900 mm
6.233596 ft
h
L
Location h of upper surface of pour from farthest restraining surface:
1900 mm
2 H
H
Specific heat Ch :
Grade of concrete:
25 MPa.
0.231 Btu/lbF
K =
for .( L/ H ) >=2 . 5
Volume of pour of concrete :

17.936 m3
5.278E-006 per 0F
Thermal expansion coefficient (Ct) :
Exposed surface area :
Side faces ------>>
Upper surface--->>
1.08 Btu/ft.hr.F
Thermal conductivity of concrete, K :
3
Density of concrete wc:
25 kN/m
159.08
(Volume/exposed surface) Ratio :
0.31291 met or as
Thermal diffusivity of concrete hh : 0.705354
Effective V/S ratio :
1.747 ft

hh=

Design temperature difference :

360 kg/m3
23 0C or as

Cement content of concrete :

Pouring temperature of concrete :
Design temperature difference (TE) :

Note : Heavy concrete is used for construction.

area
Length (mm) width (mm)
25200
1900
47.88 m2
11800
800
9.44 m2
Total surface area :
57.32 m2
lb/ft3 for normal concrete.
1.026608 ft as (V/S) ratio
ft2/day

80.6 0F or as

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[ ]
L
+1
H

L
1
H
KR=
L
+ 10
H

16 0C or as

Minimum service temperature :

73.4 0F.

Tallowable :

68.48 0F being

<

27.00 0C from Table:-T5 of the report.

T allowable=

1510
K RECT

0
80.6 F being the design temperature difference (T E).

hence shrinkage reinforcement is required !

% of reinforcement :

0.000

for . ( L / H )<2. 5

60.8 0F

Elastic modulus of concrete :

28500 MPa or as
4133.43 ksi
or as
4133430.02 psi
Elastic modulus restraining surface :
4.99E+06 psi for rock
rock
Multiplier m is computed as :
0.751125
2.5
KR :
Effective
degree
of
restraint
K
is
computed
as follows .
0.55250809
RE
0.41500241 being m x KR
Allowable temperature difference (T allowable) is given as below

K
C h w c

Degree of restraint to thermal shrinkage :

KRE :

% from thermal shrinkage considerations alone.

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m=

1+

A g Ec
Af Ef

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Calculations are performed for crack-width control & thermal shrinkage considerations.
Control Building Basement
full length of wall
Cylinder strength of concrete, fc':
20 MPa or as
2900.653 psi
t
c
Tensile strength of concrete :
323.14624 psi
Diameter of reinforcement bar :
25 mm
Contributory area per bar, A :
37500 mm2
Spacing of bars :
300 mm
or as
58.12512 in2
Clear cover to bars:
50 mm or as
1.968504 in
L' =
Effective cover to bars 'dc' :
62.5 mm or as
2.46063 in
No.of bars NH/2:
6.3333333 bars over ONE face of wall
18 K

f '=6 f ' , in psi

Limiting value of crack-width, w :

0.25 mm or as

0.009843 in

A =2d cs, in
w
RE C T T E

ft'
Ec

Gergely-Lutz expression as follows.

fs :
24764.11 psi or as
170.75 MPa & as
0.411 fy
6
w10
Average crack spacing (L') :
20.605123 ft
Stress is not exceeding 0.6fy
fs=
, in
Required area (Ab) of reinforcement is computed as below
L'/(2h) :
1.656001
0 . 076 3 d c A
Location h of pour :
6.2213491 ft or as
74.65619 inch
p1:
0.00522
f t ' Bh
L'
p2 :
-0.656001
A
=0.
4

1
b
p3 :
185.6349
f s NH
2h
p4 :
1
Area of single bar :
0 in2 or as
0 mm2/met
Bar area :
0 mm2 or bar diameter is :
0.0 mm equivalent diameter
% of reinforcement :
0.000 % required on each face of wall to be added to the design reinforcement if any.
Assumed reinforcement was :
24617 mm2/met
Conclusion :
Bar dia assumed is adequate for limiting the crack-width !!
Minimum reinforcement is :
960.0 mm2/met
Final design reinforcement is :
960.0 mm2/met

Tensile stress (fs) corresponding to this crackwidth is computed using

Calculations for minimum reinforcement :

Relevant clause of ACI:349-1985 is used as below.
Thicknesss is :
800 mm
therefore clause 7.12.2 is applicable

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Minimum reinforcement is computed as :

% reinforcement using both faces together is :

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960.0 mm2/met/face/direction
0.2400 % with respect to gross area