Response of Two-way Bubble Deck Slab to Harmonic Load

Reducing self-weight of any structure can be considered as the main goal and it is a significant challenge for most civil engineering constructions, especially in tall buildings and earthquake regions. One of the most adopted techniques is to reduce concrete structures self-weight through voids in a particular position through the structure, just like a voided slab or BubbleDeck slab. This book aims to investigate the behavior of BubbleDeck reinforced concrete slabs under the effect of static uniformly distributed load and harmonic load, experimentally and numerically. The experimental program involved twenty fixed supported two-way solid and BubbleDeck slabs of dimensions 2500x2500x200 mm. The specimens were divided into three groups; the first comprised of five specimens tested under static uniformly distributed load up to failure, and the second group included five specimens that were tested under a harmonic load of different frequencies, while the other ten specimens, (group three), were tested under the effect of harmonic load, then the residual strength was determined through the application of (monotonic) uniformly distributed load.

Reducing self-weight of any structure can be considered as the main goal and it is a significant challenge for most civil engineering constructions, especially in tall buildings and earthquake regions. One of the most adopted techniques is to reduce concrete structures self-weight through voids in a particular position through the structure, just like a voided slab or BubbleDeck slab. This book aims to investigate the behavior of BubbleDeck reinforced concrete slabs under the effect of static uniformly distributed load and harmonic load, experimentally and numerically. The experimental program involved twenty fixed supported two-way solid and BubbleDeck slabs of dimensions 2500x2500x200 mm. The specimens were divided into three groups; the first comprised of five specimens tested under static uniformly distributed load up to failure, and the second group included five specimens that were tested under a harmonic load of different frequencies, while the other ten specimens, (group three), were tested under the effect of harmonic load, then the residual strength was determined through the application of (monotonic) uniformly distributed load.