Dear HTURKAK
In plan the other side dimensions(Y direction) are 3m for each side. This will give a proposed slab beam located at the longer side of a one way slab
Thanks for your comments.
Dear Structural Engineers
In a residential building of a footprint of 18m x 10 m , the Architect want to introduce a Slab beam (sometimes refers to as concealed beam/band beam) at the 1st floor and roof terrace slab at AB and CD(ref:Fig 1 ). Clear span to be 7.68 meters. I done some preliminary...
Dear HTURKAK (Structural)and Lomarandil (Structural)
Thanks for your valuable comments.
Also I will check again the value of the Bending moment for the future cantilever.
Dear Structural Engineers
A small commercial development at our area will be such that the owner wants to initially build Ground Floor and a 1st floor and later he want to add 2 more floors (Total of 4 floors)This proposed RC building to be used for commercial purposes. The soil condition is ok...
For a building refurbishment project ,it is required to provide 6”x 6” opening along RC beams of sectional size 9”x18”.
The existing building (03 storied) is about 25 years old and for the concrete structure, Grade 25 concrete has been used. According to the available structural drawings, the...
Dear Dik
Thanks for your opinion
Also I will assume that the blue color sections you suggest in your proposal- to be act as corbel members connected to the columns
Dear Structural Engineers
For a proposed 4 storied apartment building, as per the Architects requirement a Zig-Zag RC beam to be designed in between 2 columns at the 1st, 2 nd and 3 rd floor levels(Please refer to the attached typical part plan)
The structure was analyzed for loadings using a...
Dear Structural Engineers
It is required to design a RCC structure as the entrance gate for a land development scheme
I want to start the analysis using a software package and want to model the structure
It is required to clarify the following matters
1) If I model the structure as mentioned...
Dear Structural Engineers,
We need to install a small/medium sized crusher plant(Crusher size L=1500mm,W=1390 mm, H=1400 mm) at our site.
I was asked to give a structural detail design for the Supporting structure for Feeder, Crusher & separator etc. I am an intermediate level structural...
dhengr(Structural):
Thanks for your lengthy reply....I got a good insight about the problem and got an idea about what information required to tackle this problem
LittleInch (Petroleum):
Thanks for your opinions
How to improve the load carrying capacity of an existing RCC slab deck bridge
I am seeking an advice from Engineers having experienced in bridge design/bridge construction, who are members of this forum
There is RCC slab deck bridge is at a rural village area in Liberia (western Africa) We are...
@dik(Structural)
The soil is sandy gravel mix.
plate the existing column is a good idea for increasing the column capacity.
But for the added foundation capacity -using micropiles is bit difficult due to the site location and also seems to be expensive.
Anyway thanks for your opinion.