Steps to follow for the pre-dimensioning of

armed slab The sizing of the slab depends on

the use of the building such as: residential,
industrial, office, educational, welfare, sports.
The use will define the variable loads that in
turn defines the thickness of the slabs. This is
expressed in the COVENIN standards, where
it says: minimum actions for the building
project. Residential building Variable Load
The variable load of the roof slab is different
from that of the mezzanine slab. The roof has
a load of 100 k / m2 because nobody is going
to transit it. While the mezzanine is 175 k /
m2. Permanent loads The permanent loads
correspond to the Partition, the own weight ...
see more ... The square root of this value is
taken to obtain two numbers that multiplied in
this area that gives us 13 cm The minimum
area that this column would need to have is
13 cm x 13 cm. There is a norm that says
that no column can have an area smaller
than 900 k / m2 that is 30 cm x 30 cm. The
area of this column would then be 30 cm x 30
cm. To calculate the area of some column of
the lower floor than the previous one, the
total load of the reinforced slab is multiplied
by 2: 1418 k / m2 and the other procedures
are continued. The load capacity of the
columns of the upper floors far exceeds the
value of the total weight that the columns are
supporting, for this reason in the pre-
dimensioning of the structure we can reduce
the area of the columns that are indicated in
BLUE color (graphic 1) at 0.30 mx 0.30 m,
since the area.