Analysis of ribbed & Waffle Slabs with Design Loading Condition under Different Boundary Conditions

Authors(2) :-Archit Jain, Rakesh Patel

When a large space within a building needs to be covered without hindrance and supports, architects often deploy waffle slabs to construct floors and ceilings. Structural designers analyse such slabs, assuming the grid work as simply supported system (all four edges) and deriving solutions based on displacement compatibility of beams or plates to arrive at an approximate solution or performing a detailed finite element analysis (FEM) of the slab beam system using any of the generalized finite element software available in the market. This is so because no analytical solution or quick computational tool exists, except for the case of slabs with all edges simply supported. In this study we are performing comparative analysis of ribbed and waffle slab to determine the most stable and distributive one in comparison. To validate the results, selected cases are compared with finite element analysis and results are compared in terms of forces, moment, displacement and drift in both direction.

Authors and Affiliations

Archit Jain
P. G. Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, SIRTS, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Rakesh Patel
Professor and H.O.D, Department of Civil Engineering, SIRTS, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Bending moment, Deflection, boundary condition, Plate equations, Shape functions, Shear force, Waffle slab, Ribbed slab , Plate theory based on Timoshenko method.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 1 | January-February 2020
Date of Publication : 2020-01-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 34-44
Manuscript Number : IJSRCE20416
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2456-6667

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Archit Jain, Rakesh Patel, "Analysis of ribbed & Waffle Slabs with Design Loading Condition under Different Boundary Conditions", International Journal of Scientific Research in Civil Engineering (IJSRCE), ISSN : 2456-6667, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.34-44, January-February.2020
URL : https://ijsrce.com/IJSRCE20416

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