Saturday, July 24, 2010

Cellular rafts

  1. Used where a reasonable bearing capacity subsoil can be found olny at depths where beam and slab techniques become uneconomic.
  2. The construction is similar to reinforced concrete basements excepts that internal walls are used to spread the load over the raft and divide the void into cells
  3. Openings can be formed in the cell walls , allowing the voids to be utilised for the housing of services , store rooms or general accommodation

Column splice bars (RC slab ) ( coloumns positioned on wall intersections )

opening in wall and

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