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When a beam supports a slab (or when it carries another beam only on its one side), it is subjected to
direct torsion.
In order to be able to place the slab reinforcement, the beams formwork must have its back side-face open.
The rebars of the slab supported by a beam, must be anchored at least with double bending, as shown at
the above detail. The rest of the reinforcement has to abide by the rules regarding cantilevers as
explained in the following chapter.
In order to be able to place the slabs rebars, the formwork must have its back side-face open.
Alternatively, the vertical slab bar could be constructed 50 mm shorter so as to be placed unobstructed
above the longitudinal reinforcement at the bottom part of the beam.
There is also another more complex but old and well-tried practice: in the slab area where torsion
appears, the stirrup and the slab rebar are formed with one single bar, as shown at the figure bellow.
The reinforcement solution with unified stirrups rebars in the slab area