Residential Concrete Slab Roof Design

For wood design chapters 5 6 and 7 use asd.

Residential concrete slab roof design.

Concrete compressive strength fc 3 ksi. One concern is that the concrete must develop the compressive strength intended by the structural engineer in the design of the roof deck. Introduction concrete slabs on grade are a very common type of concrete construction. The simplest way to construct a roof terrace is by utilising a concrete slab.

Slabs s1 and s2 to be designed. Design loads for residential buildings. Roof slab forms the top cover for main vessel which is filled with concrete for the purpose of nuclear radiation shielding. 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.

Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick. S design roof snow load. For example one way slab thickness calculation is different and easier from hellip. Steel yield strength fy 40 ksi.

Advances of computational fluid dynamics in nuclear reactor design and safety assessment 2019 related terms. For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers. A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like. The design or nominal loads should be determined in accordance with this chapter.

And e design earthquake load. Constructing a concrete slab for a structural roof is different from that for building a slab on the ground in that attention must concern two important objectives. Pitch roof is an inclined slab generally constructed on resorts for a natural look. Live load 40 psf figure 1.

The construction and design of concrete slabs on grade d. The thickness of dome slab is 0 15m. If the plan is not to install roofing. In general 6 inch 150mm slab thickness is considered for residential and commercial buildings with reinforcement details as per design.

This is one of the types of concrete slabs. 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 solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house. Concrete design and the asd method for masonry design.

Thickness of concrete slab depends on loads and size of the slab. Floor slabs can range from a simple residential basement slab to a heavy duty industrial floor. 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.