Different types of Stirrups are used in the construction industry such as Single Legged Stirrup, Two-Legged Stirrup, Three-legged Stirrup, etc.
Stirrups are rectangular steel pieces used to resist lateral shear stress and diagonal tension stress in RCC structures. Stirrups help to hold in place the primary reinforcement bars and prevent buckling failure in columns.
Depending upon the nature of construction, the different types of stirrups used in beam and columns are listed below:
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Types Of Stirrups
1. Single Legged Stirrup:
This type of stirrup is very rarely used. It can be used to bind two reinforcement bars. Single Legged Stirrup is not used in beam and column because there are more than 2 bars to tie.
2. Two Legged Stirrup:
The two-legged stirrup is the most popular type of stirrup in the construction industry. As you can see n the figure, 4 reinforcement bars are required to bind together.
If you visit any construction site, you can observe mostly these types of stirrups are used.
3. Three-legged Stirrup:
As you can observe from the figure, in this arrangement a two-legged stirrup and single-legged stirrup are used to tie 6 reinforcement bars.
4. Four Legged Stirrup:
A four-legged stirrup generally consists of two overlapping stirrups that don’t wrap all the rods.
When we use a single stirrup to tide a beam or column at the same time, we are saying it is a two-leg stirrup and thus if we use a Double stirrup to tide than a beam or column at that time, we say it is 4 leg stirrups. that’s why A single stirrup has two legs.
5. Five Legged Stirrup:
It is the combination of a four-legged stirrup and a single-legged stirrup.
6. Six Legged Stirrup:
This very interesting type of stirrup for a civil engineer. In this, a single stirrup encircles all 8 rods and an extra leg provides additionals support. Extra legs are provided within the big stirrup which holds all reinforcement bars.
