Structural Behavior of Hollow-core One Way Slabs of High Strength Self-compacting Concrete

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Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Diyala, Diyala, Iraq

Abstract

Reinforced concrete hollow-core slab (HCS) is a new type of lightweight slabs in which the longitudinal voids provide the ability to reduce the concrete amount. Reducing the concrete amount causes a reduction of the dead loads which consequently leads to cost-saving, fast construction, and getting long-span. The experimental program includes constructing and testing slab species with dimensions 1700×435×125mm to investigate the effect of eliminating concrete ratio by changing the size of the longitudinal void and the number of longitudinal voids on the performance of HCS. The experimental results showed that elimination of the concrete with percentages 10.83, 17.20 and 24.37% from the hollow-core high strength slabs using three longitudinal voids of diameters 50, 63, and 75mm, respectively, resulted in saving the ultimate strength by 90.06, 87.84 and 85.07%, and increasing the ultimate deflection by 5.48, 10.80 and 17.44%. While, elimination of the concrete with percentages 16.25, 24.37 and 32.50% from the hollow-core high strength slabs using two, three, and four longitudinal voids of 75mm diameter resulted in saving the ultimate strength with percentages 89.29, 85.07 and 80.61%, and increasing the ultimate deflection with percentages 7.57, 17.44 and 22.81% respectively when compared with the reference solid slab.

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International Journal of Engineering
Volume 34, Issue 1
TRANSACTIONS A: Basics
January 2021
Pages 39-45

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