COMPARATIVE STUDY ON

VARIOUS FLAT SLAB SYSTEMS

FOR LARGE SPAN

Under the guidance of Dr. A. Mallika

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
VNR VIGNANA JYOTHI INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
BACHUPALLY, NIZAMPET (S.O.), HYDERABAD - 500 090

NEETA RAUTELA
15071D2005

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 CONTENTS
• ABSTRACT
• INTRODUCTION
• NUMERICAL STUDY
• COMPARATIVE STUDY
• CONCLUSIONS
• REFERENCES

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 ABSTRACT
 Slab is one of the most important structural component in a
building.
 The choice of type of slab for a particular floor depends upon
many factors. Economy of construction is an important
consideration. The design load, required spans, serveciblity
requirements and strength requirement all are important.
 Local practises among the builders , designers ,and users
should not be overlooked in selecting the type of slab.
 The present study focuses on the design of various types of
flat slab systems.

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 TYPE OF SLAB SYSTEMS

 Wall supported
 Beam supported
 Flat slab
 Flat plate slab
 Grid or waffle slab

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TYPES OF FLAT SLAB SYSTEMS

The different types of flat slab systems are

 Flat plate
 Flat slab with drops and without column heads
 Flat slab with drops and with column heads

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TYPES OF FLAT SLAB SYSTEMS

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 Flat plate slab

A flat plate is a one- or two-way system usually supported

directly on columns without any beams.

 Simple formwork & simple construction

 where the total height of a building is restricted, using a flat plate
will result in more stories accommodated within the set height
 Flat plate systems are economically viable for short to medium
spans and for moderate live loads
 the economical span length range is up to 7m.
 Saving in construction shuttering cost.
 Clear ceiling will help to better lightings of the floors.

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 Flat slab system
A flat slab is two-way system with thickenings in the slab at
the columns and load bearing walls called ‘drop panels’.
USE OF DROP PANELS
1. Increase shear strength of slab.
2. Increase negative moment capacity of slab.
3. Stiffen the slab and hence reduce deflection.
USE OF COLUMN HEADS
4. Increase the shear strength of the slab.
BENEFITS
5. Flexibility in room layout.
6. Saving in building height
7. Shorter construction time
8. Prefabricated welded mesh
9. Ease of framework installation. 8
Flat slab system

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BEHAVIOUR OF FLAT SLABS

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 BEHAVIOUR OF FLAT SLABS
 The behaviour of flat slabs and flat plates are identical to those to
Two-way slabs with beams.
 The bands of slabs in the two orthogonal directions along the column
Lines may be considered to act as beams.
 Such bands of slabs are referred as column strips which pass through
the centre line of columns and middle strip which occur in the middle
of two adjacent columns.
 The column strips behaves as continuous beam supported on columns

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 DETERMINATION OF BENDING MOMENT

For this IS 456-2000 permits use of any one of the following two
methods:

 The direct design method.

 The Equivalent Frame Method.

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 The direct design method

Mo=WLn/8

Where ,

M0 = Total moment
W = Design load on the area L2*Ln
Ln = Clear span extending from face to face of columns, capitals
or walls but not less than 0.65L
L1 = Length of span in the direction of M0
L2 = Length of span transverse to L1
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 DISTRIBUTION OF MOMENT

The total design moment M0 in a panel is to be distributed into –ve

moment and +ve moment as specified below

INTERIOR PANEL

 Negative Design Moment 0.65 M0

 Positive Design Moment 0.35 M0

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DISTRIBUTION OF MOMENT

-ve Moment 0.65 M0

75% column 25%

strip middle strip

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Continued…

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 NUMERICAL STUDY

DATA
Span in X-direction = 10m
Span in Y-direction = 6m
Size of the column = 900mm*450mm
Thickness of the slab = 250mm
Live load = 2KN/m2
Floor finish = 0.5 KN/m2

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COMPARISON OF MOMENTS

Flat slab with drop

Flat slab with drops
Flat plate and without
and column capitals
capitals

+ve moment
177KNm

-ve moment -ve moment

330Knm 246Knm

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COMPARISON OF AREA OF STEEL
FLAT SLAB WITH DROPS AND FLAT SLAB WITH DROPS AND
FLAT PLATE
EITHOUT CAPITALS CAPITALS

Steel required to Steel required to Steel required to

resist positive resist positive resist positive
moment moment moment
5840 mm2 6084 mm2 4444 mm2

Steel required to Steel required to Steel required to

resist negative resist negative resist negative
moment moment moment
11777 mm2 11876 mm2 8745 mm2

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 conclusion

 Moments obtained are less for flat slab with drop panel and column
head compare to flat slab with drop and without column head and
flat plate.
 Area of steel required is also less for flat slab with drop panel and
column head compare to flat slab with drop and without column
head and flat plate.

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 REFERENCES
 Design of reinforced concrete structures by M.I.Gambhir.
 Reinforced concrete design by S Unnikrishna Pillai and Devdas Menon.
 Design of reinforced concrete structures by N Subramanian.
 Advanced reinforced concrete design by P.C. Varghese.
 Plain and reinforced concrete- code of practice Is-456:2000

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THANK YOU

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