Challenges in the structural assessment of transfer slabs for shear

Speaker: Robert Vollum, Professor of Structural Concrete, Imperial College London. Organiser: CONSTRUCT Lab. <strong>Abstract</strong><br> In the UK, the use of reinforced concrete transfer slabs in multi-storey residential buildings became commonplace in the early 2000’s following the widespread adoption of elastic finite element analysis for the design of reinforced concrete slabs. In the absence of published design guidance, engineers had no alternative but to follow their engineering judgement when applying codified design rules for shear and flexure to the design of transfer slabs. Examination of the existing UK building stock shows wide variations in the thickness of transfer slabs with relati