The Design of Reinforced Concrete Floor Slabs Which Terminate at Edge Beams,

摘要

The dissertation present a design approach for monolithic reinforced concrete slab-beam systems where the slab terminates at edge beams on one or more sides. Consideration is given to deflections and stresses at working loads,and to the ultimate capacity of the system. Three large scale beam-slab-column systems were tested to collapse in the experimental phase of the investigation. The results of these tests are compared with the ACI allowable stresses. The design approach is then presented and illustrated by an example.