Reinforced Concrete Floor Slab Design
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Reinforced concrete floor slab design. Living rooms should face north in all but hot humid climates to enable winter sun to invest warmth into the slab. The slab has to carry a distributed permanent action of 1 0 kn m2 excluding slab self weight and a variable action of 3. Simply supported one way slab a rectangular reinforced concrete slab is simply supported on two masonry walls 250 mm thick and 3 75 m apart. Introduction concrete slabs on grade are a very common type of concrete construction.
Matthew stuart p e s e f asce secb course content slab on grades construction. Floor slabs can range from a simple residential basement slab to a heavy duty industrial floor. Design of slab examples and tutorials by sharifah maszura syed mohsin example 1. Unit 571 new smyrna beach fl 32128.
The construction and design of concrete slabs on grade d. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. Concrete slabs perform better as the diurnal temperature range increases. 15 2 1 chapter 2 basis of floor slab on grade design 2 1.
Powered by the equivalent frame method of analysis and design per latest american aci 318 14 and canadian csa a23 3 14 spslab v5 50 is widely used for analysis design and investigation of two way slab systems including waffle and slab bands beams and one way slab systems including standard and wide module joist systems. Concrete floor systems guide to estimating and economizing second edition 2002 david a. Passive solar design principles and high mass construction work well together and concrete slabs are generally the easiest way to add thermal mass to a house. Kamara and lawrence c.
A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings consisting of a flat horizontal surface made of cast concrete. Thermal expansion and contraction of the concret e.