Design of Wall Footing

Author Dr. H.S.Rai

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Load from wall P 1000 kN/m
Thickness of wall tw 200 mm
SBC qa 200 kN/m^2 @ 1 m below
ground
Concrete Grade fck 40
Steel Grade fy 460
Unit weight of ws 16 kN/m^3 Angle of 30
Soil Internal
friction
Assume length of Lw 2.5 m
wall
Clear Cover cc 50 mm
Side Cover sc 50 mm
Dia of main steel diaMain 16 mm
Dia of distribution diaDist 8 mm
steel
Unit weight of wm 18 kN/m^3
masonary
Unit weight of wc 25 kN/m^3
reinforced
concrete
Design a RC wall fooring for a 200 mm thick masonary wall to carry a load of 1000 kN/m.
The allowable soil pressure, qa is 200 kN/m^2. Assume M40 concrete, Fe 460 steel, and
unit weight of soil =16 kN/m^3.
Values with yellow background may be altered
Solution:

Given
Load P 1000 kN/m
Thickness of wall tw 200 mm
Allowable soil pr. qa 200 kN/m
fck 40 N/mm^2
fy 460 N/mm^2
Ec 31623 N/mm^2
Es 200000 N/mm^2
xu,lim / d 0.47
Mu,lim / (b d^2) Q 5.432 N/mm^2
Self weight of footing 300 % (Assumed)
Required width of footing 20 m using: load / qa
Provide width of footing 5 m
DoF using Rankine’s formula 27.8 m
DoF adopted 27.8 m
Weight of footing #REF! #REF! 3000 #REF!
Upward net pressure 200 kN/m^2
Factored upward net pr., qu 300 kN/m^2

Take trial thickness of footing, 200 mm

D
Effective depth, deff 142 mm

Distance of critical section for 2450 mm

BM from free end
Mu,x 900.38 kNm
#NUM! #NUM! mm^2
Min steel @ .12% 1200 mm^2
Required spacing for 16 mm #NUM! mm
dia bars
Provided spacing 10 mm
Steel provided 20106.2 mm^2
Steel provided (%) 33
Steel provided 20106.2 #NUM! #NUM! #NUM!
Distance of critical section for 2258 mm At a distance d
Shear force from free end from face of
wall
Vu,x 677.4 kN
N/mm^2 4.77 not < 4 Not Ok
Development length / dia 33
ld for fully stresses 528 mm
ld for actual stress #NUM! mm
ld required #NUM! #NUM! 2350 #NUM!
#NUM! #NUM! #NUM! #NUM! #NUM!
Min d (mm) required 407 not < 142 Not Ok

Bearing stress
A1 1000000 mm^2
A2 500000 mm^2
A1/A2 Actual 2 Can’t > 2
A1/A2 Used in calculation 2
Bearing stress fbr for footing 7.5 < 36 Ok
(N/mm^2)
Distribution steel
Steel required for width of 1200 mm^2
footing

No. of bars required 5

At a spacing about 1200 mm c/c

Design results
Overall depth 200 mm
Main steel #16@10
Distribution steel 5 - #18 Spacing ~ 1200

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Design a RC wall fooring for a 200 mm thick masonary wall to carry a load of 1000
kN/m. The allowable soil pressure, qa is 200 kN/m^2. Assume M40 concrete, Fe 460
steel, and unit weight of soil =16 kN/m^3.
Values with yellow background may be altered
Solution:

Given
Load P 1000 kN/m
Thickness of wall tw 200 mm
Allowable soil pr. qa 200 kN/m
fck 40 N/mm^2
fy 460 N/mm^2
Ec 31623 N/mm^2
Es 200000 N/mm^2
xu,lim / d 0.47
Mu,lim / (b d^2) Q 5.432 N/mm^2
Self weight of footing 10 % (Assumed)
Required width of footing 5.5 m using: load / qa
Provide width of footing 6 m
DoF using Rankine’s formula 7.7 m
DoF adopted 7.7 m
Weight of footing #REF! #REF! 100 #REF!
Upward net pressure 166.7 kN/m^2
Factored upward net pr., qu 250.05 kN/m^2

Take trial thickness of footing, 450 mm

D
Effective depth, deff 392 mm

Distance of critical section for 2950 mm

BM from free end
Mu,x 1088.03 kNm
Ast required (0.777%) 7616.7 mm^2
Min steel @ .12% 3240 mm^2
Required spacing for 16 mm 26.4 mm
dia bars
Provided spacing 151 mm
Steel provided 1331.5 mm^2
Steel provided (%) 0.136
Steel provided 1331.5 < 7616.7 Not Ok
Distance of critical section for 2508 mm At a distance d
Shear force from free end from face of
wall
Vu,x 627.13 kN
N/mm^2 1.6 not < 0.381 Not Ok
Development length / dia 33
ld for fully stresses 528 mm
ld for actual stress 3020.366204 mm
ld required 3020.366204 not < 2850 Not Ok

Min d (mm) required 448 not < 392 Not Ok

Bearing stress
A1 2000000 mm^2
A2 500000 mm^2
A1/A2 Actual 4 Can’t > 2
A1/A2 Used in calculation 2
Bearing stress fbr for footing 7.5 < 36 Ok
(N/mm^2)
Distribution steel
Steel required for width of 3240 mm^2
footing

No. of bars required 13

At a spacing about 483.3 mm c/c

Design results
Overall depth 450 mm
Main steel #16@151
Distribution steel 13 - #18 Spacing ~
483.3