Slab Design Procedure

1. Obtain Design Criteria

Includes:
 Girder Spacing
 Number of girders
 Top and bottom cover
 Concrete strength
 Reinforcing steel strength
 Concrete density
 Future wearing surface
 Concrete parapet properties
 Applicable load combinations
 Resistance factors

2. Calculate Minimum Slab Thickness

Compute:
 the effective span length
3. Determine Minimum Overhang Thickness
4. Compute Dead Load Effects
5. Compute Live Load Effects
Includes:
 Dynamic load allowance
 Multiple presence factor
 AASHTO moment table for equivalent strip method
6. Compute factored positive design moments
7. Design for positive flexure in deck
8. Check for Positive flexure cracking under service limit state
Includes:
 the bottom transverse reinforcement in the deck is
checked for crack control.
9. Design for flexure in deck overhang
10. Design overhang for horizontal vehicular collision force
11. Design overhang for vertical vehicular collision force
12. Design overhang for dead load and live load
13. Check the area of Reinforcing steel in deck and overhang
< As (overhang) >AS(deck) >
14. Compute Overhang cut-off length requirement
15. Compute Overhang development length
16. Design bottom longitudinal distribution reinforcement
17. Design Top longitudinal distribution reinforcement
18. Design longitudinal reinforcement over piers
19. Draw schematic of final concrete deck design