Anchor bars provided for the compression side of single RC beams. It is provided to hold or support transverse reinforcement bars.

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Anchor bars provided for the compression side of single RC beams. It is provided to hold or support transverse reinforcement bars.
Anchor bar in single RC ream is provided to hold vertical stirrups.
Vertical stirrups are designed to resist shear force.
We use 8 or 10 dia for anchor bar in beam.
It is done for two reasons :
Anchor bars are the bars which are given on compression side to hold the stirrups or lateral reinforcements and the main bars.