Hi all,
I have designed a suspended slab over a basement (so one level). After formwork was removed the slab showed hairline cracks in numerous places particularly around small plumbing openings. The cracks do not follow a pattern that I know, they show near supports, in mid-spans, on the face...
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I am designing my first building over two-storey height including sizing slabs for longterm deflection. I read in the design codes that the support settlements and formwork settlements should be accounted for when considering refined defelection calculations.
This points is very unfamiliar...
There seem to be a clear confident between the way AS3600 distribute the punching shear reinforcement and what ACI318 thing reinforcement should be spaced.
first AS3600 chapter 9 c.9.2.6 states that maximum spacing of punching shear reo ( ties) should not exceed 300 or Depth of slab.
ACI...
I have recently noticed that a lot of structural engineering companies based in Australia give this attached typical details for column ties between floors.
You notice two main thing in that detail:
1) 3 sets of ties at 80 below every slab
2) half the ties spacing at lap length.
I could not...
Dear All,
This is my first thread and I have heaps of questions, so please bear with me :D
Question 1:
I have recently read this clause in the Australian Standard AS3600 cl 10.3.1: " Le = effective length determined in accordance with Clause 10.5.3; or
alternatively may be taken as— (i) for a...
