Circular Slabs
Circular Slabs
Circular Slabs
Introduction:
They are commonly used as:
Roof of a circular room.
Base slab or cover slab for circular water tanks.
Cover slabs for wells.
Circular footing for a circular column.
Roof of a traffic control post.
When loaded, these slabs bend like a saucer
producing tensile stresses at bottom and
compressive stresses on top.
Analysis:
Support conditions:
Simply supported at edges
Fixed at edges
Partially fixed at edges
Equations for moment and shear for a few standard cases:
(1) Slab simply supported at edges and loaded with U.D.L.
(2) Fixed at edges and loaded with U.D.L.
(3) Partially fixed at edges and loaded uniformly
(4) Simply supported at edges with U.D.L. along the
circumference of a concentric circle
(5) Simply supported at edges with U.D.L. inside a
concentric
circle.
Notations:
w = uniformly distributed load (ie load per unit
area)
a = radius of the slab
Mr= radial bending moment per unit width at
any radius r
(Mr)c and (Mr)e= radial bending moment per
unit witdth at
centre and edge respectively
M= circumferential bending moment per unit width at
any radius r
(M)c and (M)e= circumferential bending
moment per unit
Detailing of reinforcements:
Example:
Data:
Shear check:
v =.5*10.688*2.5/(1000*103)=0.129 N/mm2<k c
References:
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