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Dimensioning reinforcement/wall/roof thickness
How do you calculate the thickness of roads/roofs and how much reinforcement is needed?
Outside the walls, there is soil/clay (stable), and the concrete will be cast directly onto this (plastic sheeting in between). The "roof," which will also be the floor of the next level, will have a piano weighing 400kg in the upper right corner. The roof/floor should support a pallet truck weighing 1000kg and have an opening (hatch) according to the drawing.
Anyone who knows about this and can calculate it a bit, or knows where it can be done?
Outside the walls, there is soil/clay (stable), and the concrete will be cast directly onto this (plastic sheeting in between). The "roof," which will also be the floor of the next level, will have a piano weighing 400kg in the upper right corner. The roof/floor should support a pallet truck weighing 1000kg and have an opening (hatch) according to the drawing.
Anyone who knows about this and can calculate it a bit, or knows where it can be done?
Buy ready-made filigree elements so the supplier does the calculation for you. Otherwise, it's about calculating the self-weight of the building that ends up on top and inserting point loads that you can convert to distributed loads, and then you add temporary loads and safety margins.
It's a couple of pages, maybe there's a program for it, I don't know.
I understand this might not have helped much, but you should have studied some math to figure it out, Gaussian elimination comes in handy!
It's a couple of pages, maybe there's a program for it, I don't know.
I understand this might not have helped much, but you should have studied some math to figure it out, Gaussian elimination comes in handy!
Unfortunately, it's the mechanics books, the statics section. It's just about following what might be called load calculations.
And as my teacher always said, if you conclude that the house is moving, you've probably miscalculated somewhere.
And as my teacher always said, if you conclude that the house is moving, you've probably miscalculated somewhere.
My introductory mechanics course was "under construction" for some modernization purpose while we were taking it, I’m studying chemistry, so the literature consists of a binder with papers but very ingenious headings... But I will look for your sections 
Haha, or maybe they built it really wrong
Haha, or maybe they built it really wrong
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