Exercise 3 Suspended Floor

Part 1 Produce a structural scheme design for the floor systems of a typical
residential floor plate (not Level 1) and the Ground Floor transfer slab.

Part 2 Develop this scheme by producing a detailed set of floor drawings,

including reinforcement details for slabs and beams.

Detail one entire residential floor (not Level 1).

For the Ground Floor, it is possible for students to obtain full marks by
covering the following minimum scope of work:
1. One transfer beam, including end details.

2. One slab connected to the detailed transfer beam.

3. One connection between transfer beams, where there is no

column under the connection (if this forms part of your scheme).
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Exercise 3: Floor design – hints and tips

1. For the scheme design sketches look at 1 Airport drive

example from lecture notes.
2. For the transfer scheme, think about which beams might be the
largest, size couple of these, size a typical beam and
extrapolate these sizes to produce a sketch showing starting
sizes for the detailed design process – don’t design every
beam.
3. For the detailed drawings of the residential floor aim for
simplicity rather than designing every beam on the floor.

Code commentaries are a useful source of information

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Suggested approach - detailed slab design:

1. Understand the extent of the concrete – preliminary sketch

2. Check fire (SECTION 5)
3. Check durability (SECTION 4)
4. Select a method of structural analysis (SECTION 6)
5. Deemed to comply deflection check (CLAUSE 9.3.4)
6. Punching shear check (SECTION 9)
7. Determine crack control reinforcement (SECTION 9)
8. Bending strength check (SECTION 9)
9. Detailing
Reinforcement Detailing Handbook for Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete
Concrete Institute of Australia

University of Queensland
School of Engineering
CIVIL 4511/12