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Numerical and Experimental Analysis of a Waffle Slab Parking Floor
Rational and sophisticated structural solutions are essential requirements for structural designers, as a consequence of architectural design evolution and new building management concepts. Thus, waffle slabs turn out to be an interesting alternative, despite their laborious numerical modeling. It is necessary to increase knowledge about the structural behavior of and improve the theoretical models used for the simulation of these slabs. To better understand the behavior of RC waffle slabs, and more realistically quantify stresses and displacements of this kind of element under actual work conditions, a real-scale ribbed slab was tested and the results are presented in this paper. The chosen structure, designed to serve as a parking floor, was instrumented with strain and deflection gauges to assess the deformations and deflections developed under some induced loading conditions. A grillage model and a three-dimensional finite-element model were used for the numerical study. The data collected indicates that both strategies can be used to obtain adequate estimates of deflections and bending moments.
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of a Waffle Slab Parking Floor
Rational and sophisticated structural solutions are essential requirements for structural designers, as a consequence of architectural design evolution and new building management concepts. Thus, waffle slabs turn out to be an interesting alternative, despite their laborious numerical modeling. It is necessary to increase knowledge about the structural behavior of and improve the theoretical models used for the simulation of these slabs. To better understand the behavior of RC waffle slabs, and more realistically quantify stresses and displacements of this kind of element under actual work conditions, a real-scale ribbed slab was tested and the results are presented in this paper. The chosen structure, designed to serve as a parking floor, was instrumented with strain and deflection gauges to assess the deformations and deflections developed under some induced loading conditions. A grillage model and a three-dimensional finite-element model were used for the numerical study. The data collected indicates that both strategies can be used to obtain adequate estimates of deflections and bending moments.
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of a Waffle Slab Parking Floor
Schwetz, Paulete F. (author) / Gastal, Francisco P. S. L. (author) / da Silva Filho, Luiz C. P. (author)
2013-02-01
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Numerical analysis of a Waffle slab footing
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