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4.1 - Design Load Combination

This document discusses design load combinations for reinforced concrete based on the National Structural Code of the Philippines (NSCP) 2015 and ACI 318-14, providing load factors and equations for load combinations, and gives examples of calculating the critical design load using load combinations for given load values on a column.

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4.1 - Design Load Combination

This document discusses design load combinations for reinforced concrete based on the National Structural Code of the Philippines (NSCP) 2015 and ACI 318-14, providing load factors and equations for load combinations, and gives examples of calculating the critical design load using load combinations for given load values on a column.

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MODULE 4:

DESIGN OF RECTANGULAR BEAMS


and ONE-WAY SLABS

Reinforced Concrete Design


CEng 144

Engr. MARCELO T. ABRERA, Jr.


Instructor
LESSON 4.1

DESIGN LOAD
COMBINATIONS
based on NSCP 2015 and ACI 318-14

Reinforced Concrete Design


CEng 144

Engr. MARCELO T. ABRERA, Jr.


Instructor
DESIGN LOAD COMBINATIONS based on NSCP 2015 and ACI 318-14

LOAD FACTORS
▪ Load factors are numbers, usually larger than 1.0, that are used to increase the
estimated loads applied to structures.
▪ These are used for loads applied to all types of members (beams, slabs, etc).

▪ The loads are increased to attempt to account for the uncertainties involved in
estimating their magnitudes.
DESIGN LOAD COMBINATIONS based on NSCP 2015 and ACI 318-14

NSCP 2015
(SI Units)
DESIGN LOAD COMBINATIONS based on NSCP 2015 and ACI 318-14

ACI 318-14
(English Units)
DESIGN LOAD COMBINATIONS based on NSCP 2015 and ACI 318-14

▪ The largest value obtained in these Load Combinations is referred to as


the critical or governing load combination and is the value to be used in
design.

▪ Values of the wind and seismic loads can be different depending on the
direction of those forces, and it may be possible for the sign of those loads
to be different (i.e., compression or tension).

▪ These tedious calculations can be easily handled with the use of Excel
spreadsheet.
DESIGN LOAD COMBINATIONS based on NSCP 2015 and ACI 318-14

EXAMPLE PROBLEM 1
The compression gravity loads for a building column have been estimated with the
following loads: D = 668 kN; live load from roof, Lr = 267 kN; and live load from floors, L =
1335 kN. Compression wind, W = 312 kN; tensile wind, W = 267 kN; seismic compression
load, E = 223 kN; and tensile seismic load, E = 178 kN. Determine the critical design load
using the NSCP 2015 load combinations.
DESIGN LOAD COMBINATIONS based on NSCP 2015 and ACI 318-14

EXAMPLE PROBLEM 2
A column in the upper story of a building is subject to the following loads:
Dead load: 26 kips
Occupancy live load: 15 kips
Roof live load: 5 kips
Snow load: 8 kips
Rain load: 5 kips
Wind load: 8 kips

All loads are compression except for the wind load, which can be either
tension or compression. Determine the controlling ACI load combination and the
corresponding factored load.
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