Behaviour of waffle slab foundation incorporated with wire mesh under concentrated load / Norman Mohd Said

This experimental project compares the performance of 3 waffle slab foundations under concentrated load which is applied to the column stump to a maximum load of 400 kN. One of these slabs is the normally conventional reinforced concrete waffle slab and the other two slabs are two-way partially prestressed waffle slabs. Specimen WSF01 is the normally reinforced concrete waffle slab with 4 number of ' waffles ' or ' cell The other two specimens, WSF02 and WSF03 are two-way partially prestressed post-tensioned slabs with 4 and 16 number of ' waffles ' respectively. All the specimens are incorporated with column stumps of 610 mm height. This project seek to study the behaviour of waffle slab foundations under concentrated load applied on the stump. During testing, the strain, deflection and crack pattern were recorded under each load increments.