Residential Concrete Slab Roof Design

Concrete design and the asd method for masonry design.

Residential concrete slab roof design.

For example one way slab thickness calculation is different and easier from hellip. Advances of computational fluid dynamics in nuclear reactor design and safety assessment 2019 related terms. A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house. Matthew stuart p e s e f asce secb course content slab on grades construction.

Introduction concrete slabs on grade are a very common type of concrete construction. Steel yield strength fy 40 ksi. The design or nominal loads should be determined in accordance with this chapter. Design loads for residential buildings.

Even though a treated concrete slab is waterproof standing water on a roof terrace should be avoided and so all roof terrace slabs should. A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like. Slabs s1 and s2 to be designed. Roof slab forms the top cover for main vessel which is filled with concrete for the purpose of nuclear radiation shielding.

And e design earthquake load. For wood design chapters 5 6 and 7 use asd. The simplest way to construct a roof terrace is by utilising a concrete slab. Pitch roof is an inclined slab generally constructed on resorts for a natural look.

Live load 40 psf figure 1. Because typical concrete is porous it needs to be treated with an additive such as xypex which makes the concrete waterproof. Methods used for finding slab thickness varies for different types of slabs. Domes are in the semi circle in shape and shuttering is done on a conventional slab in a dome shape and concrete is filled in shuttering forming dome shapes.

One concern is that the concrete must develop the compressive strength intended by the structural engineer in the design of the roof deck. In general 6 inch 150mm slab thickness is considered for residential and commercial buildings with reinforcement details as per design. Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick. Thickness of concrete slab depends on loads and size of the slab.

If the plan is not to install roofing. This is one of the types of concrete slabs. 2 thick brick tile. Design the roof slab beam and column of house given in figure 1.

For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers. The thickness of dome slab is 0 15m. S design roof snow load. Floor slabs can range from a simple residential basement slab to a heavy duty industrial floor.