Flexural Design

This page will cover the flexural design capabilities and methodology used in ACI Beam Designer.

Topics to Cover

• Whitney stress block method
• Tension-controlled section verification
• Compression-controlled sections
• Minimum reinforcement requirements
• Maximum reinforcement limits
• Multi-layer reinforcement configurations
• Doubly-reinforced sections
• Moment capacity calculations
• φ (phi) factors for flexure
• Strain compatibility analysis
• Reinforcement layout optimization
• Design example walkthrough

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