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varying thickness of RAFT slabs

Thread starter brick2020
Start date Jul 25, 2013

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Jul 25, 2013

brick2020

Structural

Hi All...

I have a raft under a building that is 1200mm.. and also a portion of th ebuilding where the raft os 750mm thick.
How should i joing the raft with varying thickness.. shoudl i taper the 1200mm raft to 750 gradually.. or is it ok to have sudden drop from 122-750?

I have cheacked , and there is no stress concentratio n near the edges.

any standard details in ACI?