Comportamento Estrutural de Lajes Nervuradas de Concreto Armado com Base no Emprego do Programa ANSYS

Abstract

The use of ribbed slabs in the constructions in general is growing in Brazil, because, with the development of the computation, the modelling of these structures became more accessible to the designers and the inherent advantages to the system became visible. For this reason, several works were published in the last years having as purpose the analysis of this slabs type, always using and comparing different methods, among them, grillage analogy are the most used, since it is also used in the main commercial programs of reinforced concrete. In this work a parametric analyzes of a model of ribbed slabs of reinforced concrete called REDUZCON is made and it determines the influence of several relevant parameters in the elastic-lineal analysis of these slabs. This system makes use of inverse cylinder metallic cap named BRC (reduced concrete cap). Through the parametric analysis of the ribbed slabs REDUZCON, important factors are approached for the model of grillage analogy, as the boundary conditions, torsional inertia of the system (ribs and board beams), geometry of the edge beams, and the number of transversal ribbings. It is also studied the influence of the sides ratio. Finally is also investigated the natural frequency of some of these slabs and compared with the values recommended in the design codes. The results obtained along the study indicate clearly, that the most relevant parameters in the grillage analogy, such as torsional inertia and condition of support of the slabs, they modify the displacement results and efforts of the structural system substantially.