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ACI Web Sessions

This ACI Web Session includes two speakers presenting at
the ACI fall convention held in Pittsburgh, PA, October 24 –
28, 2010. Analysis, Design, and Construction
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Practices in Environmental Engineering
Concrete Structures, Part 2 of 2
Please enjoy the presentations. ACI Fall 2010 Convention
October 24 - 28, Pittsburgh, PA

Javeed Munshi has 20 years of engineering

experience in design, evaluation and construc-
tion of concrete structures including heavy
industrial (fossil and nuclear) power structures,
bridges, underground structures (tunnels),
buildings, and environmental concrete Strength Requirements
structures. He is currently a Senior Structural
Engineer at Bechtel Power in Frederick, MD. Dr. Munshi is
widely published and has conducted concrete design seminars
and training for the American Concrete Institute, the Portland
Cement Association, and the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Slides prepared by
Institute. He is a licensed professional engineer in states of New
York and Wisconsin and a licensed structural engineer in Javeed Munshi, Ph.D., P.E.
Illinois.

Strength Requirements Chapter 9 – Strength Requirements

Chapter 8 – Analysis and Design Considerations Chapter 9 – Strength
 8.1.1 - Design using Load factors and phi Design Strength  Required Strength
factors of Chapter 9
 (Nominal Strength)  U
 8.1.2 - Appendix I (Allowable Stress Design
Permitted only for nonprestressed members) Nominal Strength = Axial, shear or moment
strength of section based on strength and
 8.3 - Approximate methods of analysis are
sectional properties of concrete and strength,
permitted for nonprestressed members
location and amount of reinforcement

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Load Factors Environmental Durability Factor -- Sd

Sd = fy/fs
Required Flexure Strength  Sd U
 = Factored Load/Service Load
Mn  Sd (1.2MD + 1.6ML + 1.6MF) Flexural Sections:

fs, max = 320/(s2 +4(2+0.5db)2………Normal Exp.

Required Direct Hoop Strength  Sd U = 260/(s2 +4(2+0.5db)2…..…Severe Exp.

Excess shear carried by shear reinforcement ≤ 36 ksi

 = (h - c)/(d - c) [use 1.2 for h≥16 in. and 1.35 for h
Vs  Sd (Vu - Vc ) < 16 in.]

Environmental Durability Factor -- Sd

Actual Strength

Sd = fy/fs Strength
 = Factored Load/Service Load PATCH
Sd
Design Strength ACI 318

Direct/Hoop Tension: fs, max = 20 ksi Normal Service Level

= 17 ksi Severe

Shear Reinforcement: fs, max = 24 ksi Normal

= 20 ksi Severe
Service
Level
Strength
Level
Load

Env. Durability Factor Sd

Environmental Durability
[Kianoush & Atashi]

Section 9.2.6 and 10.6.4 Bar Size

Exposure
fs Sd
Condition
• Keep cracks tight at serviceability to
Severe 22 1.75
prevent leakage #3 - 5
Normal 24 1.61
• Flexure
Severe 18 2.14
• Direct Tension/Hoop Tension #6 - 8
Normal 22 1.75
• Shear Reinforcement Severe 17 2.26
#9 - 11
Normal 21 1.84

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Design Loads Design Loads

I. Floor Live Loads II. Fluid Loads

A. Equipment and Stored Materials A. Normal Fluid Levels

B. Personnel and Transient Loads B. Overflow Fluid Levels

Floor design loads should take into account: C. Internal Positive or Negative Air
Pressures
1. Installation
2. Maintenance 1. Due to Actual Operations
3. Operation, 2. Due to Rapid Filling or Rapid
of equipment and materials. Draw down

Design Loads Design Loads

II. Fluid Loads III. Environmental Loads (as per local codes)
D. External Fluid Loads
A. Wind
1. Ground Water or Flood condition
B. Snow
2. Earth Loads
C. Thermal
a) Active, passive and at rest
D. Earthquake
pressures
3. Buoyancy/Floatation

surcharge grade surcharge

w.l.  w.l. 
Ground w.l. Ground w.l.
(b)
(b)
(a) B F (e)

w.l. 
(c) (a) C (f)
(d) G (c) (d)

Pressures on walls – water treatment plant

(a) Inside water pressure (d) Ground water pressure
(b) Earth active or at rest pressure (e) Filter box water & submerged filter material
(c) Submerged earth pressure (f) Clear well water pressure
Pressures on walls

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Hydrodynamic Pressure Middle (Common) Wall

Hydrodynamic Pressure

Hydrodynamic Pressure
Hydrodynamic Pressure

Movement Required for Active/Passive

Pressure Development

Hydrodynamic Pressure

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Dynamic Earthpressure

Active or Passive

Soil – cohesive or cohesionless

Water Table

Rigid or Flexible Wall

Merrick Taylor, SECED Newsletter, Oct 09

Saturated Soil Factor

Dry = 1.0
Dynamically pervious = 1.6
Dynamically impervious = 2.0 (pore pressure
development)

Fp = thrust factor = 1 for normal soils

Merrick Taylor, SECED Newsletter, Oct 09

Possible Simplification
Flexible wall-backfill or wall-base
Seismic earth pressures can be
neglected at accelerations below 0.3 g. This is
Dynamic earth pressure is considerably less consistent with the observations and analyses
Fp could be 0.5 or less performed by Clough and Fragaszy (1977) and
Fragaszy and Clough (1980), who concluded that
conventionally designed cantilever walls with granular
backfill could reasonably be expected to
resist seismic loads at accelerations up to 0.5 g.

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Unified Design Approach Unified Design Approach

Required strength unchanged To unify and simplify the overall

• All load combinations of Sect. 9 apply design requirements

Design strength To remove many of the inconsis-

• Design strength =  (nominal strength)

tencies

• Nominal strength does not change

Unified Design Approach Unified Design Approach

- factor determined by strain Terms used to define the strain

condition of a section at nominal condition
strength, and not on the type of loading • t – net tensile strain in extreme tension steel at
depth dt at nominal strength due to the factored
Strain condition defines the behavior
loads, exclusive of effective prestress strain

• dt – distance from extreme compression fiber to

extreme tension steel

Unified Design Approach Unified Design Approach

Strain Limits and Behavior Regions
0.003 0.003 0.003 0.003

c c

dt d dt d

s

t t t  0.005
t  0.002
Transition Tension-
Compression-
Region controlled
controlled

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Unified Design Approach -

Unified Design Approach Applicability
Strength Reduction Factor  Flexural and compression members
Nonprestressed, prestressed and
Without
Spiral combinations
0.90 =0.57+67t
With
Spiral Sections of any shape
 0.70
=0.48+83t
0.65
Composite sections
Steel at various depths
0.002 0.005
t

Section 9.3  - Factors Section 9.2 Load Combinations

Eq. Load Combination - ASCE 7
Shear and torsion = 0.75 No.

Bearing = 0.65 9-1 1.4(D + L)

9-2 1.2(D + F + T) + 1.6(L+H)+0.5(Lr or S or R)
Post-tensioned anchorage zones = 0.85 1.2(D + F + T) + 1.6L+H +.. see (d)
1.2(D + T) + 1.6(L+H)+.. see (e)
Strut and Tie Models = 0.75 1.2(D + F + T) + 1.6H +.. see (e)
1.2(D + F + T) + H +.. see (d)
Plain Concrete = NA
9-3 1.2D + L + 1.6 (Lr or S or R)
1.2D + 1.6 (Lr…) see (e)

Section 9.2 Load Combinations Section 9.2 Load Combinations

Eq. Load Combination – ASCE 7
Eq. Load Combination - ASCE 7
No.
No.
9-6 0.9D + 1.2F± 1.6W see (e)
9-4 1.2D ± 1.6W+ L+ 0.5(Lr or S or R) 0.9D ± 1.6W+H
1.2D ± 1.6W+ 0.5(Lr or S or R) see (e) 0.9D ± 1.6W+1.6H
0.9D ± 1.6W Not in ACI 350?
9-5 1.2D + 1.2F ± E+1.6H+L+0.2S
9-7 0.9D + 1.2F± E+1.6H
1.2D + 1.2F ± E+H+L+0.2S see (d)
0.9D + 1.2F± E+H
1.2D ± E+1.6H+L+0.2S see (e)
0.9D + 1.2F± E
1.2D + 1.2F ± E+H+0.2S see (e)
0.9D ± E+H
9-6 0.9D + 1.2F± 1.6W+1.6H 0.9D ± E+1.6H
0.9D + 1.2F± 1.6W+H see (d) 0.9D ± E Not in ACI 350?

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Example – Beam Design Example – Beam Design

Mu = 600 ft-kips ( = 0.9)
f’c = 4000 psi, fy = 60,000 psi • a = 8.9 in.
Preliminary Design: Use As = 6 No 9 Bars and d = 30 in • c = 10.4 in., dt = 31 in;
Typ. Cover = 2.5 in. • t > 0.005
•  = 0.23+0.25/(c/dt) > 0.9
fs, max = 320/(s2 +4(2+0.5db)2 > 36 ksi, • Mn = 0.9 x 6 x 60 (30-8.9/2)/12 =690 ft-kips
Use fs, max = 36 ksi. • Mu = Sd x 600
30”
Sd = fy/fs = 1.07, = 1.1 x 600 = 660 ft-kips < 690 ft-kips OK
where  = 1.4,  = 1.2 and 6-No.9

s = 3 in.
Use Sd = 1.1 12”

Example – Slabs Flexure and Axial Loads

Assuming  = 1.4,  = 1.35 for h < 16 in. Reinforcement Spacing For Appearance
– New Eq. 10-7
s > 6 in. (typically)

s = 540/fs -2.5cc
fs, max = 320/(s2 +4(2+0.5db)2 < 30 ksi,

But not greater than 12 in

Sd = fy/fs = 1.3 or Larger

William (Bill) Sherman is a principal

structural technologist at CH2M HILL and a
registered professional/structural engineer in a
number of states. He has over 35 years of
structural engineering experience, including
over 20 years working on water/wastewater
projects. He is the current chair of ACI
Committee 350, and has previously participated on ACI
Committee 301. Mr. Sherman's structural engineering experience
includes planning, design, evaluation, and services during
construction for numerous public works projects in the water
resources and power industry. His experience includes developing
design criteria, analyses, construction drawings, specifications,
shop drawing reviews, quality assurance, and contract administra-
tion for newly constructed structures and modifications to
existing structures.

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ACI 350 Code

Future Code Changes
and Specifications  Code is being actively updated
 Once balloted it goes first to ACI TAC review and
second to 45-day Public Comment Period
 About 2 or 3 years before publication
Slides prepared by
William C. Sherman , Chair ACI 350

Adoption of ACI 318-08 revisions Major Revisions to ACI 350 Code

 Code Chapters have been re-organized

 Since our code relies heavily on the ACI 318
code, we have updated the 350 code to
incorporate ACI 318 changes that are appropriate  Chapter 4 extensively revised to correspond with
for environmental engineering concrete selection of Exposure Categories as has been
structures done in ACI 318-08
 ACI 350 will always lag ACI 318 code provisions
since 318 must be finalized before 350 can adopt  A new Chapter on Joints (CH 7)
changes
 Some former Appendices have been
incorporated into the main body of the code

Chapter Reorganization Chapter Reorganization (cont.)

 New Chapter 7 on Joints
 Appendix I for the Alternate Design
 “Details of Reinforcement” moved from CH 7 to Method moved back to Appendix A
CH 12 (with Development and Splices)
 New Appendix B proposed to address the
 Seismic Design moved from CH 21 to CH 13 Strut & Tie method

 Appendix G for Circular Wrapped Prestressed  Other Chapters and Appendices are
Walls moved to CH 21 similar to previous but may have new
numbers/ letters
 Appendix H for Slabs on Soil moved to CH 22

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Chapter 23 – Evaluation of Existing

Chapter 4 - Durability
Structures

 Code requirements reformatted similar to ACI  ACI 318’s Chapter on existing structures
318-08 to address “Exposure Categories and emphasizes verification of strength
Classes”, such as freeze-thaw, sulfates, etc.
 ACI 350’s version now addresses “Strength
 Exposures modified some as required for
Evaluation and Condition Assessment of
environmental concrete structures Structures”
 Provisions for Supplementary Cementitious
Materials are being expanded, with new upper
and lower limits on SCMs unless the testing is
conducted

ACI 350.3, Seismic Design of Liquid-

Significant proposals being debated
Containing Concrete Structures
 New provisions for shrinkage and temperature  Being updated and issued simultaneously with
reinforcement – to relate required reinf to degree the ACI 350 Code, to ensure compatibility of
of restraint in lieu of basing on joint spacing seismic requirements

 Proposal to remove restriction on using

 Seismic chapter in ACI 350 Code:
unbonded tendons for circumferential
prestressed reinforcement  Special systems are similar to ACI 318 provisions
 General provisions are more specific to
 Proposal to modify allowable stresses when
applicability to tanks
using the Alternate Design provisions (ASD
method) for better consistency with recent code  Most special provisions for tanks are defined in
Section 13.1
provisions for strength

ACI 350.1, Specification for Tightness

ACI 350.3 (cont.) Testing of Environmental Containment
Structures
Some tweaking of seismic provisions:
 Recently revised and has been approved for
publication
 Importance Factors modified to be consistent with
definitions in ASCE 7-05  Major reformatting to convert from a “Standard”
to a “Reference Specification”
 R-values modified but slightly higher than ASCE 7  Some tweaking and clarification of provisions
 Provides test methods and default allowable
 Vertical acceleration for rectangular tanks percent loss values
increased for consistency with circular tanks
 Does not define what structures must be
tightness tested

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ACI 350.X, Specifications for

Environmental Concrete

 Based on ACI 301-05

 Provisions modified as for Environmental

Concrete Structures, such as more restrictive
durability requirements for concrete mixes

 Special provisions for prestressed tanks

Related Documents Click on the text below to go to the web page.

Environmental Structures
 350-06 Code Requirements for Environmental Engineering Concrete
Structures
 350.1-01/350.1R-01: Tightness Testing of Environmental Engineering
Concrete Structures & Commentary
 350.2R-04: Concrete Structures for Containment of Hazardous Materials Seminar Schedule Bookstore Web Sessions Conventions
 350.3-06 Seismic Design of Liquid-Containing Concrete Structures and
Commentary
 350.4R-04: Design Considerations for Environmental Engineering Concrete
Structures

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