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Design of irregular slabs

The slabs which are not rectangular in plan or which support an irregular loading
arrangement may be analyzed by techniques like yield line method or Hillborg strip
method , in this project we use the expressions derived by Timoshenko and
Woinowski-Krieger for elastic analysis of an isosceles triangular slab as shown in
fig.2.9. below
isosceles triangular slab

2bh
d = diameter of the inscribed circle =
b + b2 +4h 2
Freely supported along all edges (corners restrained):
Bending moment (in two directions at corner of circle) = + wd 2 /16
Continuous along all sides :
Bending moment (in two directions at corner of circle) = + wd 2 /30
Bending moment (at sides ) = - wh 2 /30
w is the intinsity of uniformaly distributed load (or intinsity of pressure at
centre of circle if pressure varies uniformaly)
These expressions are vailed for values of v not greater than 0.2.

IRREGULAR SLABS
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FIG .2.12 ISOSCELES TRIANGULAR SLAB

Example of irregular slab design :

The slabs are considered as triangular slab continuous along all sides
b = 5.7 m
h = 6.5 m
Intinsity of uniformally disrebuted load = 14.14 kN/m 2
2bh 2×5.7×6.5
d = = = 3.725 m
b+ b2 +4h 2 (
5.7+ 5.72 + 4×6.52 )
14.14×3.7252
Bending moment(in two directions at centre of circle) = = 6.54 kN.m/m
30
14.14×6.52
Bending moment at sides = - = -19.9kN.m/m
30

The steel reinforcement design and other checks are done similar to that of solid slabs…