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flat slab

construction
Also known as: flat plate

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use in building construction

  • construction of apartment buildings
    In construction: The invention of reinforced concrete

    …floor slabs without beams (called flat slabs or flat plates) that used diagonal and orthogonal patterns of reinforcing bars. The system still used today—which divides the bays between columns into column strips and middle strips and uses only an orthogonal arrangement of bars—was devised in 1912 by the Swiss engineer…

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  • construction of apartment buildings
    In construction: Concrete

    …economical floor system is the flat plate, where a plain floor slab about 20 centimetres (eight inches) thick rests on columns spaced up to 6.7 metres (22 feet) apart. If the span is larger, the increasing load requires a local thickening of the slab around the columns. When these systems…

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