Behaviour of two-way partially prestressing waffle slab incorporated with wire mesh (BRC) under cyclic loading / Ismail Zainal

This project study consists of preparing, fabricating and testing of two-way partially prestressing waffle slab incorporated with wire mesh (brc) test specimens under the Knife Edge Load (K. E. L.) cyclic loading process. The test specimens, namely waffle slabs WS 01, WS 02 and WS 03 are of similar overall size but having different size and number of waffles and ribs within them. The performance or behaviour of the test specimens are examined by load - deflection relationship, load - strain relationship, deflection and strain under load reversals and the ultimate and service loads of each slab system. The experimental results obtained indicate that the presence of increased number of ribs will result in an improved overall performance by the test specimens.