he choice of the slab type and form is very critical for the other structural elements and overall stability of a structure.
Category: Structures
Steel columns in simple construction are the most popular type of columns encountered in multi-storey steel buildings in practice
Torsion in structures is something that is best avoided as far as possible. This is because the twisting of structural elements generates large internal forces which result in a significant increase in element sizes and possibly even change in form
Fatigue is a type of failure that occurs when a material fails at loads below the specified yield strength. It usually occurs from stress from cyclical loading over a period of time
. In this post, we are going to consider how to design concrete shear walls according to Eurocode 2.
Thus, one of the methods of ensuring lateral stability and avoiding excessive lateral deflection is by deploying shear walls across the width of the building to resist the lateral forces.
Flat slabs are reinforced concrete slabs supported directly on columns, without beams. They are sometimes thickened at the columns to form column drops.
Waffle slabs are not different from a ribbed slab, their design is indeed based on the same principle as the ribbed and troughed slab system.…
A column is considered slender when second-order effects ( i.e. additional effects caused by structural deformations) cannot be safely ignored in the analysis and design…
A structure does not only transfer gravitational forces to the ground, it must do so for several other lateral forces applied . The components that…