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Ribbed Slabs
Information to provide in scheme design: ● Statement that the design is a one way ribbed slab ● Thickness of topping on…
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Wall Slabs
Information to provide in scheme design: ● Thickness of slab ● Thickness of load bearing walls that support slab ● Distance between load…
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Beam Slabs
Information to provide in scheme design: ● Thickness of slab spanning in one direction ● Size of secondary and primary beams ● Clear…
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Flat Slabs
Information to provide in scheme design: ● Constant thickness of flat slab ● Thickness of drop panels, if required. These drop panels…
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Steel: Beam Design
Steel beams are to be designed to suit the following limit states: ● Bending strength at ULS (including local buckling of flange or…
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Steel: Column Design
Steel structural members are designed to resist yielding, buckling, and rupture under ultimate forces. Steel columns are designed to resist…
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Steel Design
There are two stages in steel design: ● Structural member design for adequate stiffness and strength ● Connection design of bolts, plates,…
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Reinforced Concrete – Slab Design
Types of suspended slabs that are considered (slabs which are supported by beams, columns, or walls) ● Solid slabs ○ These slabs are made out…
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Reinforced Concrete – Beam Design
The applied loads include direct compression forces, as well as, compressive and tensile stresses that are caused by sagging bending moments to…
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Reinforced Concrete: Column Design
Design columns and other compression members where their vertical loads act concentrically to the neutral axis of the structural members.…
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Reinforced Concrete Design
Elastic response is due to applied loads but plastic behavior can be below and above yield stress. Creep rate depends…
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Rule of Thumb for RCC Design
Fire resistance (hrs) Minimum beam width (mm) Minimum thickness of floors (mm) Minimum wall thickness (p<0.4%) Min wall thickness (0.4%…