Dimensionering av betongkonstruktioner
En jämförande studie av BBK 04 och Eurokod 2 vid dimensionering av balkar och pelare
Today, we use BKR and BBK 04 when designing concrete structures inSweden, which will, in the near future, be replaced by Eurocode 2. When you are designing buildings, you will use Eurocode 2 Part 1-1 and with this new standard, some new rules and general rules will be necessary to adopt. To examine how BKR and BBK 04 tells apart from Eurocode 2 when designing concrete structures, one beam and one column with often common dimensions, is studied. The beam is designed with consideration of (considerate to) durability at bending moments, shear forces and control of cracking. The column is designed with consideration of durability at eccentric axial load and bending moments in cross section on account of (due to) geometric imperfections. BBK 04 has gone one step closer to Eurocode 2 than earlier editions and the things that are different, when calculating reinforcement, is how they use the partial factors. BBK 04 reduce the values for characteristic strength of reinforcing steel and concrete but hardly increase the values for characteristic load while Eurocode hardly reduces the values for strengths but increases the values for loads more than BBK 04. Using Eurocodes recommended values, the amount of reinforcement is considerable higher than designing according to BBK 04. However, all members (countries) in European Union have a National Annex with their own chosen values and factors and with the Swedish values, both (regelverken) give almost the same amount reinforcement. Designing with Eurocode 2 and the Swedish values gives lower amount reinforcement in both beams and columns than designing with BBK 04, which has economical advantages.