big opening in the concrete slab
big opening in the concrete slab
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In our design of concrete building, The concrete slab is designed as 9" thickness. The contractor misreaded the design drawing and put a 10' by 1' big opening 5' away from one of the column. Next column is 24' away from four sides of this column. This opening was originally designed as 1' by 1' mechanich duct. Now the floor concrete has been poured with all the rebars stop at this opening. Can anyone come up with a good solution of this?






RE: big opening in the concrete slab
or....provide supplemental steel beams underneath to create a proper load path to the columns.
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
Either tear it out and replace it per the plans or provide new supplemental support structure below the slab.
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
http://www.concrete.org/General/CI2807mota.pdf
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It appears tp me that the issue is only in one direction as the other direction is only missing the 1' width.
You need to check if the other spans are still sufficient taking into account the lack of moment continuity across this opening. If they are still okay then a steel beam either side of the opening may be sufficient (fire rated of course).
csd
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
Remove concrete around opening, leaving rebar intact.
Splice in new rebar over opening, with full length splices.
Pour concrete.
Remove props after 3 - 4 weeks.
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
We ended up having them expose the rebar and they added couplers, but it was very congested and it become a 3 dimensional issue, as some bars had to be cut further to make it all fit c/w couplers.
That always bothered me, the contractor screws it up and then the EOR has to come up with a fix for it.
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
btw what kind of contractor would make such a gross error and why did'nt any one notice before the concrete was poured??
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
If your columns are 24' o.c. each way, did you design the slab as a two way slab? There is a lot of redundency (sp?) in a two way slab system.
Hopefully, with the opening 5' away from the column, punching shear shouldn't be a big problem. (Assuming this is a flat plate slab).
If the slab does not work as is, Apsix's solution is quite reasonable.
Might substitute couplers for full tension splices (See Lenton Lock Rebar Splice System) as this would reduce amount of demo required.
JMHO.
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
RE: big opening in the concrete slab
Mike McCann
McCann Engineering