| Title |
Flexural Strength and Stiffness of Biaxial Hollow Slab with Donut Type Hollow Sphere |
| Authors |
Chung, Joo-Hong ; Choi, Hyun-Ki ; Lee, Seung-Chang ; Choi, Chang-Sik |
| Keywords |
Biaxial Hollow Slab ; Hollow Sphere ; Floor system ; Experimental Study |
| Abstract |
This paper presents the flexural capacities of biaxial hollow slabs with donut type hollow shapes. Recently, various types of slab systems which can reduce self-weight of slabs have been studied as the height and width of building structures increase. A biaxial hollow slab system is widely known as one of the effective system which can reduce self-weight of slab. A biaxial hollow slab has hollow spheres within slabs in order to reduce self-weight of slabs. The capacities of biaxial hollow slab are influenced by the shapes, volume of hollow spheres. According to analytical studies, the hollow slab with donut type hollow sphere had good flexural capacities such as strength, stiffness and deflection. To verify the flexural capacities of this hollow slab such as strength and stiffness, flexural tests were performed. Three test specimens were planned to verify the effect of test parameters. One was conventional RC slab and others were donut type hollow slabs. The donut type hollow slabs have two different fixing methods of plastic balls. The one is used diagonal steel cage and the other is fixed with only its geometrical shapes without additional steel cage. |