Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete and Commentary

CHAPTER 13—TWO-WAY SLAB SYSTEMS..................................................................................... 233
13.1—Scope ........................................................................................................................................................................ 233
13.2—General ..................................................................................................................................................................... 234
13.3—Slab reinforcement .................................................................................................................................................... 235
13.4—Openings in slab systems ......................................................................................................................................... 238
13.5—Design procedures .................................................................................................................................................... 238
13.6—Direct design method ................................................................................................................................................ 241
13.7—Equivalent frame method .......................................................................................................................................... 248
CHAPTER 14—WALLS ....................................................................................................................... 253
14.1—Scope ........................................................................................................................................................................ 253
14.2—General ..................................................................................................................................................................... 253
14.3—Minimum reinforcement............................................................................................................................................. 254
14.4—Walls designed as compression members................................................................................................................ 255
14.5—Empirical design method ........................................................................................................................................... 255
14.6—Nonbearing walls....................................................................................................................................................... 256
14.7—Walls as grade beams............................................................................................................................................... 256
14.8—Alternative design of slender walls ............................................................................................................................ 257