Structural analysis is used to assess the behavior of engineering structures under the application of loads.
Usually, structural analysis methods include analytical,experimental and numerical methods is used in
thisproject, however, only Analytical method is used and the values are taken from literature reference, to get
familiar with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using ANSYS, this is done to acquire practical knowledge about of
the effect of the cover. The aim is to identify different failure modes under a range of loading conditions by
changing the cover size to get the data of various parameters such as deflection, stress etc. Study of cover
helps to observe the stability, reliability and the overall strength of the structural beam. This project attempts
made to study the effect of cover on the behavior of reinforced concrete beam. Forthis analytical study, the
Reinforced concrete beam specimen of 2000x100x200mm was considered.ANSYS software is a suite of
engineering simulation software, based on finite element method, which can solve problems ranging from
linear analysis to nonlinear analysis. The Doubly reinforced beams weremodeled by using geometry. In this
model,various covers are provided. The beam specimensused in this study were tested under two-point static
loading condition until failure of the specimen. From theobtained resultconcluded that the total deformation
and directional deformation values are low in 25mm cover compared to other cases but the equivalent stress
value is low in 35mm cover size compared to 25mm cover size.