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Henry Newman
Water resource engineer
Asked a question 2 years ago

Why we provide Anchor Bar in a single RC beam?

Why we provide Anchor Bar in a single RC beam?

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Anchor bars are the bars which are given on compression side to hold the stirrups or lateral reinforcements and the main bars.

It is done for two reasons :

  1. To provide support for lateral reinforcement or shear reinforcement in the form of stirrups so they could be held in place.
  2. When sufficient bond strength is not available due to insufficient development length, Anchorage bars are used to add up to the development length because they can be longer since they are bent.
Seth Morgan
Construction Superintendent

Anchor bar in single RC ream is provided to hold vertical stirrups.

Why we provide Anchor Bar in a single RC beam?

Vertical stirrups are designed to resist shear force.

We use 8 or 10 dia for anchor bar in beam.

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