ACD– LECTURE 2

Design of One-Way Slab

MILITARY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

RISALPUR
 Design of slabs
Types of slabs
In steel as well as reinforced concrete construction, slabs
are used to provide flat, useful surfaces
A slab is usually horizontal with top and bottom surface
parallel or nearly so. It may be supported by reinforced
concrete beams (generally cast monolithically), brick
masonry or concrete walls, by steel beams or directly by
columns
There are two types of slabs
one way slab and two way slab
Slabs may be supported on two opposite sides or on all
four sides. A slab supported on two opposite sides is one
way slab
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If the slab is supported on all the four sides but the ratio
of length to width is more than two , then, it is one way slab.
In one way slab, the loads are carried in one direction only
i.e. perpendicular to the supports. Examples are cantilever
slab, slab panel with much larger aspect ratio, strip footing
slab and high retaining walls.
If the ratio of length to width is larger than two, most of
the load is carried in short direction to the supporting (long)
beams and one way action is obtained.
A slab supported on all four sides with length to width
ratio less than two, is called two way slab. In such cases, the
load is carried in both directions to the supports.
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Consider a rectangular slab simply supported on two
opposite long edges with span la and lb. If a uniformly
distributed load is applied to the surface, the deflected shape
will be as shown by solid lines.
Curvature and consequently the bending moments are the
same in all strips spanning in the short direction between
supported edges. As there is no curvature, and hence no
bending moment, in the long strip parallel to the supported
edges.
For analysis and design, a strip of unit width is cut out at
right angles to the supporting beams, as shown in the figure
below and may be treated as a rectangular beam of unit
width with depth equal to “h” and span la.
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Unit Strip basis for Flexural

Design
Deflected Shape of
Loaded One Way Slab
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The strip can be analyzed by the method used for
rectangular beams. The load per unit area on the slab
becomes the load per unit length on the slab strip.
The calculated reinforcement for the unit width strip is
continued over full width of the slab panel, perpendicular to
the span.
The load on the slab must be transmitted to the two
supporting beams/walls, it therefore follows that all the
reinforcement should be placed at right angles to these
supporting beams. In order to distribute the load and to
control shrinkage and temperature cracking, some minimum
reinforcement is placed in the long direction.
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One way slabs are designed with low tensile
reinforcement ratio, generally in the range of 0.004 - 0.008.
Shear will seldom control the design of one way slab
particularly if low steel ratios are used. Shear capacity of
concrete will be well above the required shear strength.
Total slab thickness is usually rounded off to next half
inch for thickness up to 6” and to next higher 1” for thicker
slabs.
Approximate amount of steel in slabs is 1kg/sq ft of slab
area (it’s a thumb rule need to be verified).
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 Minimum depth of slab based on deflection criteria of ACI
Code 7.3.1.1
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Temperature and shrinkage reinforcement. ACI Code 7.6

Maximum spacing of steel is 5xh or 18”.(Practical spacing limit is up to 2.5xh)
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Example of One way slab
 Assignment # 1
One way slab
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