Residential Concrete Slab Roof Design

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Residential concrete slab roof design.

Exact specifications vary but most concrete roofs are several inches thick. Constructing a concrete slab for a structural roof is different from that for building a slab on the ground in that attention must concern two important objectives. A concrete roof is exactly what it sounds like. Because typical concrete is porous it needs to be treated with an additive such as xypex which makes the concrete waterproof.

Methods used for finding slab thickness varies for different types of slabs. The design or nominal loads should be determined in accordance with this chapter. S design roof snow load. Matthew stuart p e s e f asce secb course content slab on grades construction.

Design loads for residential buildings. This service and product knowledge has proven invaluable to our company. This is one of the types of concrete slabs. For example the florida based company hurricane proof systems offers a 7 inch 18 centimeter slab of concrete in three layers.

Floor slabs can range from a simple residential basement slab to a heavy duty industrial floor. For wood design chapters 5 6 and 7 use asd. Introduction concrete slabs on grade are a very common type of concrete construction. One concern is that the concrete must develop the compressive strength intended by the structural engineer in the design of the roof deck.

Even though a treated concrete slab is waterproof standing water on a roof terrace should be avoided and so all roof terrace slabs should. Thickness of concrete slab depends on loads and size of the slab. Live load 40 psf figure 1. Pitch roof is an inclined slab generally constructed on resorts for a natural look.

Concrete compressive strength fc 3 ksi. They have always been extremely approachable and keen to offer sound solutions to any challenges we encounter on site. Steel yield strength fy 40 ksi. A solid slab of concrete capping the top of your house.

Slabs s1 and s2 to be designed. In general 6 inch 150mm slab thickness is considered for residential and commercial buildings with reinforcement details as per design. 2 thick brick tile. Design the roof slab beam and column of house given in figure 1.

If the plan is not to install roofing. Concrete design and the asd method for masonry design. The thickness of dome slab is 0 15m. The construction and design of concrete slabs on grade d.

The simplest way to construct a roof terrace is by utilising a concrete slab.