What are the Reinforced Concrete Beams?
What are the Reinforced Concrete Beams?
- Reinforced concrete beams are defined as the Structural components designed to support transverse external loads.
- The loads cause moment of curvature, shear force and torsion throughout their length in some cases.
- The concrete sections are very weak in tension and strong in compression.
- To overcome this weakness, reinforcement in the form of steel bars are embedded in tension region inside concrete section such as columns, beams and slab.
- The function of beam is to transfer load from slab and structure loaded on beam to supporting columns.
- Various types of reinforced concrete beams on the basis of applications :
1- Simple supported Beam
2- Continuous Beam
3- Overhang Beam
4- Cantilever beam
5- Fixed end beam
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