Over Reinforced Section

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Over reinforced section. Over reinforced section the steel provided in the beam is such that concrete reach the limiting values of strain prior to steel. Calculation of ultimate moment capacity of a over reinforced section. Strain in concrete reaches 0 0035 before steel starts yielding.
Over reinforced section section in which stresses in concrete reaches to its maximum permissible limit first even before steel is known as over reinforced section. Over reinforced beam sections reinforced concrete beam sections in which the failure strain in concrete is reached earlier than the yield strain of steel is reached are called over reinforced beam sections. Though the design examples mentioned in.
So the actual neutral axis shift downward i e n n c fig. Steel in the rcc section is more than the amount of steel that is required to have a balanced section then the section is called an over reinforced section. Over reinforced beam is the one in which concrete fails first and not steel which leads to overall failure of structure without any warning.
This lecture is a part of cs3001 concrete engineering subject for the third year civil engineering students at james cook university townsville australia. In this section stress in concrete reaches its permissible value while steel is not fully stressed. When the amount of steel provided in a section is more than required then it becomes over reinforced beam.
In an over reinforced section the percentage of steel provided is greater than the balanced section. In this section the quantity of steel in tension zone is greater than the quantity of steel required to make compressive zone concrete to get compressed to their most extreme admissible value. In other words when the extreme compressive stress in concrete achieves its allowable limit the comparing tensile stress in steel will be not as much as its permissible value.