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The context is to design a building slab inside an industrial building. Water table is only 3ft below grade and soils are mostly composed by clay.

What is the difference between a floating and a fixed slab and when is more convenient to use one or the other?

Is there any recommended roof slope for regions with significant ice and snow loads? It a 2 to 12 a recommended roof slope? If so, where is such recommendation?

Other than the difference on total applied load, what is the main differece between the two loads? When is more approppriate to apply one or the other?

Standard practice says that borings shall be backfilled with cement-bentonite grout mixture.Other that to avoid soil contamination, is there any other reason to do this?

Should a Transient load (like a blowdown force) considered like a Live load or due to its non-steady condition shall be considered as an earthquake load? It seems too conservative to apply the live load factor (1.6) to a blowdown force for the concrete design. Please advise.