Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Rare opportunity

Today, I was given an opportunity to design a canteen which is to be located at UTAR phase 2 by using ETABS.

First, I was advised to design the slab, then proceed to beam and finally the column. Besides that, I was also advised to design by manual calculation before proceed to computer aided design. The purpose of manual calculation is to determine the slab thickness, area of steel bars and numbers of steel bars provided. I was assigned to calculate slab A, slab B and slab C at various location.

Slab A was completed on the day itself. Characteristics of the slab as follows:

-Selfweight of slab = 3.6kN/m^2
-Dead load = 2.5kN/m^2
-Live load = 5.0kN/m^2
-Two way slab
-Slab thickness = 150mm
-Nominal cover = 30mm
-High tensile Steel bar diameter = 10mm
-Support X and span X = 6T10-150mm and 5T10-190mm
-Support Y and span Y = 3T10-320mm and 3T10-320mm
-Deflection is satisfactory for span X and span Y

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