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D E S I G N O F M I D R I S E P R E FA B B U 0 4 / 1 7 / 2 0 2 4
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D E S I G N O F M I D R I S E P R E FA B B U 0 4 / 1 7 / 2 0 2 4
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S O M E P R E FA B
PICTURES OF

BUILDING
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D E S I G N
O F
• The building layout took some time to decide upon.

M I D R I S E
We initially planned a 10m span building however,
the problem with that was that of transportation.

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• We tried to favor the solid slab, by deigning a 5m

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span. As well as using yield line analysis to insure
the most optimum cast in-situ design.
INTRODUCTION 3

• We have used isolated foundation since our studies

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have practically shown the building in Piassa
(NibRas) has isolated footing.

• Isolated footing was also preferred because of

transportation issues.
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Type A soil condition

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OTHER Addis Ababa Wind Speed 4
ASSUMPTIONS 44.87m/s

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2KN/m2 live load
CONNECTION TYPES
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D E S I G N
O F
M I D R I S E
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• Column in grouted pocket
COLUMN TO

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• Column on bolted Shoe
COLUMN & TO 6
• Column in grouted sleeve
F O U N D AT I O N

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• Column on Base Plate
CONNECTION
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D E S I G N O F M I D R I S E P R E FA B B U 0 4 / 1 7 / 2 0 2 4
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Post tensioning
Half Joint
Corbel
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SLAB TO BEAM
AND BEAM TO
COLUMN
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D E S I G N
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M I D R I S E
Slab to
Waffle Slab

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Beam
design
connection

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DESIGN

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Beam to Column to
Column Column
Connection Connection
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D E S I G N
O F
M I D R I S E
• Initially Slab has a load of 6.76KN/m2.

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• The monolithically cast beam under the slab was
designed using (online beam calculator). The beam

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calculator was checked using the moment
WA F F L E distribution method on an excel sheet. 9
SLAB • After adding the beams load to the slab, we get

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8.7KN/m2, which is less than the Cast-in-situ’s
10.87KN/m2
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D E S I G N
O F
• The slab to beam connection since it is not

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monolithically cast requires one of the connections
mentioned in the beginning of this presentation.

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• The dowel bars or bolts can be extended to overlap
in the interior spans to create a continuous slab
SLAB

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layout if needed
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• The dowel bars will be mostly subjected to shear
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force and that is what we shall be analyzing

• For each slab we have 20 dowel bars Hence each

dowel bar has to carry a shear force of 10KN but
with only 40% capacity it will be 25KN resulting in
a 14mm bar.
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D E S I G N
O F
M I D R I S E
• Since the beam to column connection is not

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monolithically cast, it requires one of the connections
mentioned at the beginning of this persentation.
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• We have decided in using dowel bars as we have done

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• We need to have more than 1 dowel bar per connection

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to avoid rotation.

• Therefore we ended up having 4*16mm connection on

each end of a beam
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D E S I G N
• The column shoes are not actually designed by us as

O F
we do not design the rebars but rather choose from

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specified types.

• The common practice is to take a supplier, see their

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product catalog, and choose what suits us
COLUMN-

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• The same rules apply to bolts used with the shoes,
TO-COLUMN which are sold in standard length and dimensions. 12
CONNECTIO • Load transfer on the bottom of 7th floor in Column =

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N 860KN, 4*HPKM30 shoe (4*220KN)

• Load transfer on the bottom of 4th floor in column =

1505KN. 4* PEC 36 shoe (4* 436KN)

• Load transfer on the to foundation = 2150KN,

4*PEC 45 shoe (4*697KN)
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D E S I G N
O F
M I D R I S E
• We have used revit extensively to calculate the
amount of rebar and volume of concrete found in the

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slab
D ATA

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• As the table below shows a grand total of
A N A LY S I S 3,018.97m3 and 1,785.29m3 concrete volume for
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the cast insitu and precast concrete respectively
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• We must remember that this design was conducted
R E S U LT S
in favorable conditions for the cast-in-situ in pre-cast
favoring situations this gap will be significantly
larger
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D E S I G N
• According to what we have discovered in

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viewing ECWC the time taken to produce

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one slab is less than 24 hours

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• We recommend the development of the
precast industry in Ethiopia as well as the

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academics sector in Ethiopia

CONCLUSION • Considering the drastic shortage of cement 15

and rebar in the country this will be

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fundamentally important in the economic
development

• Using 5000 Birr/m3 for concrete and

120Birr/Kg of rebar we save 6,168,400ETB
and 20,169,218.9ETB respectively.