. The theory of the flexure and strength of rectangular flat plates applied to reinforced concrete floor slabs . The Mushroom System is a continuous flat plate of concretesupported directly on columns, and reinforced in such a maner thatcircular and radial tensile stresses concentric with the column areprovided for by metal reinforcement in the tension zone abov(^ thecolumns, and similar provision is made for tensile stresses in thelower portion of the slab concentric with the center of the panel,diagonally between the columns. Since all forces in a plane may boresolved into equivalent com])on
. The theory of the flexure and strength of rectangular flat plates applied to reinforced concrete floor slabs . The Mushroom System is a continuous flat plate of concretesupported directly on columns, and reinforced in such a maner thatcircular and radial tensile stresses concentric with the column areprovided for by metal reinforcement in the tension zone abov(^ thecolumns, and similar provision is made for tensile stresses in thelower portion of the slab concentric with the center of the panel,diagonally between the columns. Since all forces in a plane may boresolved into equivalent com])onents along any pair of axes at rightangles to each other, it is possible to provide reinforcement to resistany horizontal tensile stresses in the slab by various arraugcMiuMitsof intersecting belts of rods at zones wIkmv those stresses arrangements of this kind are by no in(>ans (Hiunlly i^fT(Hti\(\A system of wide reinforcing bolts from cokunn to ooluinu ooni-bined with a system of radial and ring rods to constitutt^ a lai-g(\substantial cantilever mushroom lu^ad at tlu^ to]) of each colunni. Fig. 1. Vertical Section of Standard ^Mushroom Head showing posi-tion of Radial and Ring Rods, and Slab Rods, Vertical and Hori-zontal Sections of Spirally Hooped Column, with Plain Bar HoopCollar Band, Vertical Reinforcing Rods and Elbow Rods.
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