CIRCULAR SLABS

Roof of a room or hall circular in

Floor or Roof of a Circular water tanks or towers
plan

• Roof of pump houses constructed on tube wells

• Roof of a traffic control post at the intersection of
roads
 DESIGNING OF CIRCULAR SLABS
Basis of Design &Materials
• By Forces of Tension &compression
Design • By flexural resistance
method
Limit state
design

Limited
Ultimate
Strengt stress
limit state
h design

Limit state of
cracking
Crack
control
• Direct calculation
• Use of tables & charts
• Limited stress design
 LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE SURFACES
LIGHTWEIGHT
CONCRETES

Lightweight aggregate autoclaved

Foamed concrete
concrete aerated concrete
(AAC).
• Light weight aggregate concrete - UK, France & USA
• Aerated concrete - Scandinavian countries

• Density of Light weight • Normal concrete -2200kg/m3

concrete -300 kg/m3 to 1850 to 2600kg/m3
kg/m3
 LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE SURFACES

Basic principle behind the making of light weight concrete is by inducing the air in concrete.

• By replacing the conventional • By incorporating the air or •By omitting the sand from
mineral aggregates by cellular gas bubbles in concrete the concrete (No- fines
porous aggregates (Light (Aerated concrete). concrete).
weight agg. Concrete).
 LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE SURFACES
Factors
• Types of aggregates used
• The mixture
• The density
• The methods and techniques of preservation
LIGHT WEIGHT CONCRETE SURFACES
 AEREATED CONCRETE

• Air into the concrete.

• It is also called cellular concrete having voids between 0.1mm to 1mm size.
• Two ways are there to induce the air in concrete.
• Gas concrete
• Foamed concrete
 NO – FINES CONCRETE
• By omitting the fine aggregates from conventional
concrete.
• This concrete has only cement, coarse aggregate and
water.
• Due to absence of fine aggregates, concrete will have
large voids, resulting in light weight.
 ADVANTAGES&DISADVANTAGES
Advantages

• Rapid and relatively simple construction

• Economical in terms of transportation as well as reduction in
manpower
• Significant reduction of overall weight results in saving structural
frames, footing or piles
• Most of lightweight concrete have better nailing and sawing
properties than heavier and stronger conventional concrete
 DISADVANTAGES

• Very sensitive with water content in the mixtures

• Difficult to place and finish because of the porosity and
angularity of the aggregate. In some mixes the cement mortar
may separate the aggregate and float towards the surface
• Mixing time is longer than conventional concrete to assure
proper mixing