The punching shear resistance of reinforced concrete flat plates is an area where design is typically done in a highly-idealized manner, using provisions developed from experimental results of ...

A sill plate, also known as a sole plate, is the bottom horizontal part of a wall or building to which the vertical studs will be attached. Most sill plates are made from lumber - usually ...

The use of headed stud shear reinforcement has been widely accepted as an effective strategy to improve the punching shear resisting performance of reinforced concrete (RC) flat plates. However, the ...

Because it’s going to have cars and perhaps a pickup on it, I’d make sure the concrete slab had No. 4 steel bars, commonly called half-inch rebar, installed at 2-foot centers in both directions.