How does STRUDS® follow minimum and maximum steel criteria for beam design?
STRUDS® follows the minimum and maximum steel criteria for the beam design, as specified, in the I.S 456. As per this, the minimum steel percentage is checked for As 0.85 —- = —- bd fy Where, As= minimum area of tension steel b = breadth of the beam, or the breadth of the web in case of a T- beam. d = Effective depth fy = Characteristic strength of the reinforcement in N/mm2 The maximum area of tension reinforcement is kept restricted to 0.04bD.
