Design of an RCC Column for House
Columns are probably the most important load-bearing member of any structure, since they carry all the vertical loads of the building and transport it to the bottom of the structure, the foundation. For this reason, you have to design columns very carefully, with zero margin of error. Today, we will see the cost estimation design of an RCC column for house, taking an example.
Columns are defined as the main compression member of the structure, having more length than width or breadth. That is to say, a column will be bearing most of the loads coming down from above, and it will have an effective length much greater than its least lateral dimension.
We need to estimate the steel and concrete before we start making the column, because we have to be very precise in our work. The following is an example scenario where we calculate the steel design on an RCC column for houses, particularly for a given design.
Example Scenario
Let us say,
We are supposed to design a column for a house. The column is square in cross section, and it is short in comparison. There will be various forces acting on this column, but the major of this will be the axial load. The axial services compressive load acting on the column in question will be 600 KN.