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Design Guideline For The Use of High Strength Concrete

This document provides guidelines for the use of high strength concrete (HSC) in three sections. Section 5.1 recommends using the cover requirements for C50 concrete for HSC grades due to durability concerns. Section 5.2 notes that cover requirements for fire protection should not change, but the fire resistance of HSC over 60 N/mm2 needs investigation. Section 5.3 states that flexural design principles for HSC are similar to normal strength concrete except ductility decreases with increased strength, requiring modification of the ultimate strain and tension steel ratio.

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Design Guideline For The Use of High Strength Concrete

This document provides guidelines for the use of high strength concrete (HSC) in three sections. Section 5.1 recommends using the cover requirements for C50 concrete for HSC grades due to durability concerns. Section 5.2 notes that cover requirements for fire protection should not change, but the fire resistance of HSC over 60 N/mm2 needs investigation. Section 5.3 states that flexural design principles for HSC are similar to normal strength concrete except ductility decreases with increased strength, requiring modification of the ultimate strain and tension steel ratio.

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BC2: 2008

Section 5 Design Guideline for the Use of High Strength Concrete

5.1 Cover for Durability

From the point of view of durability, though it should be possible to reduce the covers to the steel in HSC
from those which are specified in Table 3.4 of CP65 for relatively low strength concretes, it is recommended
that the covers appropriate to C50 concrete should be used for higher grades.

5.2 Cover as Fire Protection

No change to the current cover requirements is recommended. However, for concrete compressive strength
greater than 60 N/mm2, the possible reduction of strength at elevated temperatures and the associated risk
of spalling should be investigated, taking into account the relevant factors including moisture content, type
of aggregate, permeability of concrete, possible heating rate and the silica fume content. Specialist literature
and testing should be referenced for the fire resistance design of high strength concrete structures.

5.3 Flexural Design

The principles of analysis in CP65 can be applied in design using high strength concrete. Design methodology
based on the idealised short-term stress-strain (uniaxial) diagram in CP65 also applies. The principal
significant difference between normal and high strength concrete is that ductility decreases as concrete
strength increase. Hence, the ultimate strain in compression has to be reduced as strength increases and
the compressive stress modified. In CP 65 Part 1, the ultimate concrete strain for flexural design is taken
as a constant value of 0.0035. For HSC, the maximum ultimate strain limit of the diagram is modified by
the following equations:

For fcu ≤ 60 N/mm2 CP65 stress block is applicable

For fcu > 60 N/mm2, εcu = 0.0035 - (fcu - 60)/50000

The ultimate strain, εcu , decreases with increase in the grade of concrete and if it is less than the strain at
the tangent point then the stress is reduced accordingly. Hence, the design charts in BS 8110-3 should not
be used for the design of beams higher than C60.

The simplified design procedure based on a rectangular stress-block may also be acceptable with the same
limitations on strain. Therefore, the simplified stress block in Figure 3.3 is also modified. Some longitudinal
and transverse reinforcement should be provided in the compression zone.

HSC concrete beams exhibit a lower flexural ductility than those of normal strength concrete for a similar
tension steel ratio. In order to maintain a similar level of flexural ductility, the tension steel ratio needs to be
lowered as concrete strength increases. To ensure a degree flexural ductility, CP 65 restricts the neutral axis
depth to 0.50 of the effective depth ‘d’ where redistribution is less than 10%. This is to be modified as:

fcu ≤ 60 N/mm2, x ≤ 0.5d

60 < fcu ≤ 75 N/mm2, x ≤ 0.4d

75 < fcu < 105 N/mm2, x ≤ 0.33d

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