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Continuing e-Conference for one more week

 
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:36 pm    Post subject: Continuing e-Conference for one more week Reply with quote

Dear Colleagues,

It gives us immense pleasure to see that many of us at SEFI have been
participating in the e-Conference on such a specialized topic of flat
slabs and about 100 messages were posted during the last week. The
discussion addressed various issues covering the entire design process
of flat slabs from initial decisions with respect to its choice (i.e.,
where, when, why, etc.), design and detailing (RC vs. PT, openings,
punching shear, etc.), behaviour under seismic loads, modelling and
analysis issues and construction difficulties. We hope that these
discussions will encourage further inquiry and development.

We are sure that everyone at this forum has learned a little more about
various aspects of flat slabs. However, there are still many areas that
require further deliberations, such as: (1) Lower bound limit on lateral
load for which flat slab structure must be designed for, (2) Alternate
types of reinforcement to improve the behaviour of the slab column
connection, (3) Economic solutions to resist lateral drift induced shear
stresses at slab column connection, (4) Appropriate method of analysis
for gravity and lateral loads using already available software and their
limitation, (5) Simple methods for design of slab column connection
accounting for shear stresses due to both vertical and lateral loads,
(6) Safety checks during construction, especially for PT slabs, and (7)
Retrofitting of existing flat slab structures which may be seismically
deficient in order to improve their behaviour under lateral load, etc.

We feel that these as well as many other related issues related can be
further deliberate upon and, therefore, we would like to keep this
e-Conference open for one more week. We would like to thank you for
being part of the discussion thus far and once again, we invite you to
share your knowledge, concerns and questions about the flat slab
construction.

Durgesh Rai & Manmohan Kalgal, Moderators
with assistance from Vijayanarayanan A R

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