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A reinforced concrete slab of size 6m x 4m whose adjacent short edges are discontinuous and monolithic construction with the supports. The slab has to carry a live load of 5 kN/m² and a floor finish of 1.5 kN/m²and the floor partition is 1 kN/m² Use M20 concrete and Fe415 steel. Sketch the details of reinforcement also.

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Can I build a partition wall over a floor slab without a beam below it?

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Krishna Kinkar Mishra, Civil engineer with EXPERIENCE at construction sites.

Answered Jul 24, 2017

Nowadays it is a common PRACTICE to build partition WALLS over floor slabs without a beam below it. It is frequent in commercial multistoried BUILDINGS that consist of framed structures. With CHANGING needs , these partition walls get their locations changed. It is better to keep these partition walls light weight as far as possible. Wooden or aluminum framed partitions are light weight. But even brick partition walls upto 125 mm/5″ thick are constructed. These are non-loadbearing walls. For these brick partition walls 100 kg/sqm live load is increased for each partition during the design.

So if the load consideration is there in the design such partition walls can be constructed.



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