Design of Slab
Design of Slab
1. GENERAL
A slab is a flat two dimensional planar structural element having thickness small compared to its
other two dimensions. It provides a working flat surface or a covering shelter in buildings. It
primarily transfer the load by bending in one or two directions. Reinforced concrete slabs are used
in floors, roofs and walls of buildings and as the decks of bridges. The floor system of a structure
can take many forms such as in situ solid slab, ribbed slab or pre-cast units. Slabs may be
supported on monolithic concrete beam, steel beams, walls or directly over the columns. Concrete
slab behave primarily as flexural members and the design is similar to that of beams.
2. CLASSIFICATION OF SLABS
OR
The following thumb rules can be used
One way slab d=(l/22) to (l/28).
Two way simply supported slab d=(l/20) to (l/30)
Two way restrained slab d=(l/30) to (l/32)
c. Load on slab:
The load on slab comprises of Dead load, floor finish and live load. The
loads are calculated per unit area (load/m2).
a. Nominal Cover :
For Mild exposure – 20 mm
For Moderate exposure – 30 mm
However, if the diameter of bar do not exceed 12 mm, or cover may be reduced by 5 mm.
Thus for main reinforcement up to 12 mm diameter bar and for mild exposure, the nominal
cover is 15 mm
b. Minimum reinforcement : The reinforcement in either direction in slab shall not be less
than
0.15% of the total cross sectional area for Fe-250 steel
0.12% of the total cross sectional area for Fe-415 & Fe-500 steel.
c. Spacing of bars : The maximum spacing of bars shall not exceed
Main Steel – 3d or 300 mm whichever is smaller
Note: The minimum clear spacing of bars is not kept less than 75 mm (Preferably 100 mm)
though code do not recommend any value.
d. Maximum diameter of bar: The maximum diameter of bar in slab, shall not exceed D/8,
where D is the total thickness of slab.
8. ONE WAY CONTINUOUS SLAB
The slabs spanning in one direction and continuous over supports are called one way
continuous slabs.These are idealised as continuous beam of unit width. For slabs of uniform
section which support substantially UDL over three or more spans which do not differ by
more than 15% of the longest, the B.M and S.F are obtained using the coefficients available
in Table 12 and Table 13 of IS 456-2000. For moments at supports where two unequal spans
meet or in case where the slabs are not equally loaded, the average of the two values for the
negative moments at supports may be taken. Alternatively, the moments may be obtained by
moment distribution or any other methods.
Table 3: Bending moment and Shear force coefficients for continuous slabs
( Table 12, Table 13, IS 456-200)
A hall in a building of clear dimension 14.10 mX9.7 m is to be provided a floor consisting of a continuous slab
cast monolithically with 300 mm wide beams spaced at 3.6 m c/c and supported on 300 mm wall at ends. The
floor is to support a live load of 3 kN/m2, Partition load of 1.0 kN/m2 and finishes at 1.0 kN/m2 . Design the
continuous slab .M-20 grade and Fe-415 steel.
2) Load on slab
a) Total Dead load
i). Self weight of slab= 0.15 x 25 = 3.75 kN/m2 ii).
iii). Floor Finish = 1.00
Partition load = 1.00
Total = 5.75 kN/m2
Factored Dead load Wd=1.5 x5.75=8.625 kN/m2
b) Factored live load WL=1.5 x3.00=4.50 kN/m2
d=
4) Area of Reinforcement
From practical consideration, Spacing cannot be varied at different locations. Hence steel is
calculated only at middle of end span and at support next to end support.
Ast at middle of end span
Mu=
15.15X106=
15.15X106=46936Ast, p-7.49
Spacing of 8 mm = 146 mm
(Pt=0.34%)
Spacing of 8 mm Sv =
mm
32*1.52 =48.64