The main purpose of using diaphragm is to transfer the lateral load to the system. This will only be used when you are having slabs but when your model doesn’t have slab then the lateral forces needs to be applied at the joint Slab possess very high resistance to lateral…
Category: Civil Engineering
The Statue of Unity
Structural design features of the world’s tallest statue: The Statue of Unity. The ‘Statue of Unity’ is dedicated to the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The height of Statue 182 meters. The slenderness ratio varies from 16 to 19. Structural system: Two partly joined cylindrical composite core surrounded…
Bubble Deck Slab
Bubble Deck is a biaxial technology that increases span lengths and makes floors thinner by reducing the weight while maintaining the performance of reinforced concrete slabs. The concept is based on the fact that the area between columns of a solid slab has limited structural effect beyond adding weight. Replacing…
Soft Storey
Soft storey is generally present at the entrance (bottom) floors of the buildings. Because entrance floors of the buildings are utilized as bank branches, storeys, restaurants, offices, car parking and the upper storeys are used as dwellings. Soft storey is an irregularity which affects the behavior of a construction during…
Appropriate Live Load
My understanding and explanation is as follows: Mass of the specified live load: In IS: 875, the live load is specified as uniformly distributed load over the slab area. The real live load is not uniformly distributed but small loads are distributed as concentrated loads on finite area. They are…