Can anyone recommend a good book or design example of reinforcing a column head?
I have a situation where we are providing relatively large column heads due to punching shear. I haven't decided for sure whether we will make them sqaure or tapered.
Logically it makes more sense to have them tappered to justify the load being transferd directly into the column rather than transfered first through the column head. Although the British codes seem to allow for this (obviously taking into account the relative parts of BS8110 regarding maximum allowable dimensions etc)and squared column heads would presumably be easier to form on site.
Thank you in advance for any quidance provided.
I have a situation where we are providing relatively large column heads due to punching shear. I haven't decided for sure whether we will make them sqaure or tapered.
Logically it makes more sense to have them tappered to justify the load being transferd directly into the column rather than transfered first through the column head. Although the British codes seem to allow for this (obviously taking into account the relative parts of BS8110 regarding maximum allowable dimensions etc)and squared column heads would presumably be easier to form on site.
Thank you in advance for any quidance provided.
