flat slab
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Flat-slab construction is a method of building floors and roofs using reinforced concrete. Unlike traditional methods that rely on beams and girders to support the floor load and transfer it to columns, flat-slab construction uses flat, monolithic pieces of concrete.12
There are several types of reinforced-concrete slabs:
* One-way slabs: Supported by beams.
* Ribbed slabs: Cast with joists.
* Waffle slabs: Two-way ribbed slabs that efficiently cover square areas and support loads equally along both axes.
* Flat plates: Reinforced in multiple directions without beams or girders.
* Flat slabs: Similar to flat plates but thickened at column supports with drop panels or column capitals.1
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constructionThe invention of reinforced concrete…floor slabs without beams (called flat slabs or flat plates) that used diagonal and orthogonal patterns of reinforcing bars. The system still used today—which divides the bays between columns into column strips and middle strips and uses only an orthogonal arrangement of bars—was devised in 1912 by the Swiss engineer…
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