I am designing a slab on grade to be used as a fire-training slab. They will be burning hydrocarbon fuels for some of their fires--so the fires will be very hot, and produce a lot of heat very quickly.
The information I have found mainly deals with the one-time/rare fire that will hit your...
I am trying to detirmine the 'slab-of-choice' for a building. I have a long, relatively narrow, building (4:1 ratio) with bearing walls providing a series of one-way slab scenarios. All-said there are roughly 5 different conditions--ranging between a 2-spans (24' max) and 3-spans (18' max)...
Good advice, would this mean re-distributing the moment (co-efficient derived) that was intended to go into the walls--into the slab?
ex.- A.C.I prescribes that 0.7 of Mo goes to the interior negative moment. A PCA design guide then breaks down that 0.7 into percentages that go into either...
I've got a two-way slab system w/ bearing walls. I am approaching it with the direct design method (wall strip, middle strip, moment coefficients, etc.). My question is, how should I treat the values of the negative moment right at the walls?
