Punching Shear Design Method of Voided Slabs

This study presents punching shear design method of voided slab in accordance with arrangement of voids around columns. According to previous studies, the slab-column connection of voided slabs is weaker than that of the solid slab due to the lack of cross-sectional area of concrete by voids. In this study, it is assumed that the arrangement of voids exert influence on the punching shear strength of voided slabs. To verify the assumption, finite element analysis was conducted related with previous test results. The variable of FE analysis was a distance between voids and column face. Based on FE analysis and test results including previous studies, punching shear design method is suggested which can consider the arrangement of voids around columns. The suggested design method is based on the punching shear design method in ACI-318. As a result, it can predict the punching shear strength of voided slabs according to arrangement of voids around column.