Residential Concrete Slab Roof Design

Because typical concrete is porous it needs to be treated with an additive such as xypex which makes the concrete waterproof.

Residential concrete slab roof design. In general 6 inch 150mm slab thickness is considered for residential and commercial buildings with reinforcement details as per design. 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. The simplest way to construct a roof terrace is by utilising a concrete slab. The construction and design of concrete slabs on grade d.

For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers. Steel yield strength fy 40 ksi. Advances of computational fluid dynamics in nuclear reactor design and safety assessment 2019 related terms. A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like.

Matthew stuart p e s e f asce secb course content slab on grades construction. 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. 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. Concrete design and the asd method for masonry design. For wood design chapters 5 6 and 7 use asd.

And e design earthquake load. Methods used for finding slab thickness varies for different types of slabs. S design roof snow load. One concern is that the concrete must develop the compressive strength intended by the structural engineer in the design of the roof deck.

Design the roof slab beam and column of house given in figure 1. A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house. Design loads for residential buildings. Pitch roof is an inclined slab generally constructed on resorts for a natural look.

Concrete compressive strength fc 3 ksi. 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. Even though a treated concrete slab is waterproof standing water on a roof terrace should be avoided and so all roof terrace slabs should. Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick.

The thickness of dome slab is 0 15m. The design or nominal loads should be determined in accordance with this chapter. Live load 40 psf figure 1. Introduction concrete slabs on grade are a very common type of concrete construction.