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Design of Lintels

The document discusses design considerations for lintels over openings in masonry walls. It addresses: 1) The distribution of concentrated loads over lintels should not exceed 30 degrees from vertical; 2) For arching action to transfer loads around openings, the masonry units must have sufficient shear strength and be laid in a suitable bond pattern, and the mortar must be of good quality; 3) When designing lintels, assumptions include loads distributing uniformly over supports and arching transferring loads to the sides of openings, within certain length limits depending on wall and floor/roof geometry.

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Design of Lintels

The document discusses design considerations for lintels over openings in masonry walls. It addresses: 1) The distribution of concentrated loads over lintels should not exceed 30 degrees from vertical; 2) For arching action to transfer loads around openings, the masonry units must have sufficient shear strength and be laid in a suitable bond pattern, and the mortar must be of good quality; 3) When designing lintels, assumptions include loads distributing uniformly over supports and arching transferring loads to the sides of openings, within certain length limits depending on wall and floor/roof geometry.

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Design of lintels:

Distribution of Loads: The angle of distribution of concentrated


loads shouldnt exceed 30 degrees with the vertical.

Arching action: The phenomenon by which part of the load


over an opening in the wall gets transferred to the sides of the
opening in masonry is called arching. For arching to be effective:

Masonry unit must have sufficient shear strength and must


be laid in suitable bond
The mortar must be of good quality

Design of Lintel:
Assumptions:
1. Load from the lintel gets uniformly distributed over the
supports
2. Due to arch action masonry and floor loads above the
triangle PRQ get uniformly distributed over the stretches of
masonry CD and EF at the soffit level of the lintel and over
the stretches GH and JK at the floor level.
3. CD and EF being limited in length to L/2 while GH and JK
limited in length to L or (L-H)/2 whichever is less.
4. For the assumption of the arching action to be valid:
a. Length of walls on both sides of an opening should be
at least half the effective span of the opening
AND
b. Floor slab and roof slab doesnt fall into the triangle
AND
c. The is no opening intercepting the triangular region
AND
d. There is no concentrated load within the triangular
portion
5. In violation of any of these conditions lintel should be
designed for full load over the opening up till the height of
the floor slab.

In this case less, lintel


should be designed for
full load over the
opening regardless of
the height of the floor
slab shown

The lintel is designed


for load of masonry
contained in the
equilateral triangle plus
load from the floor
falling within the
triangle.
Permissible Stresses:

Permissible stress: fb kskakp

fb = Basic compressive strength based on crushing strength


of masonry unit and grades of mortar, assuming:

S R not exceeding 6
Zero Eccentricity
masonry unit having height to width ratio ( as laid ) equal
to 0.75 or less

Alternatively basic compressive stress may be based on


results of prism test on masonry made from masonry
units and mortar to be actually used in a
particular job.

Stress reduction factor

Slenderness ratio of the element


The eccentricity of loading.
Area reduction factor - Smallness of the sectional area of
the element and is applicable when sectional area of the
element is less than 0.2 m2.

The factor, k, = 0.7 + 1.5 A, A being the area of section in


m2.

Shape modification factor - Height to width ratio (as laid)


this factor is applicable for units of crushing strength up to 15
N/mm%

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