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How to Design a transfer floor
What is the Loading on a Transfer Floor?
Design of reinforced concrete transfer floors, although routinely performed by structural design engineers, is a very challenging task. The transfer floors are commonly used in multi-storey buildings, and they are major structural elements carrying a number of floors. Normally the entire building, 10 to 15 levels, is carried by a transfer slabs.
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The major problem is the evaluation of the loading on the transfer slab, especially the columns and walls terminating at the transfer level. When a column terminates on a transfer beam, it will carry a smaller load since the beam supporting the column is acting as an elastic spring. The smaller the beam depth, the smaller the axial load in the transfer column. In this case the load is distributed to other columns which are continuous to the footing level. In an extreme case if we remove the support below the transfer column, the axial load will be reduced to zero, i.e. the column will be
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