Question: A floor framing plan for a given building is shown in the figure below. The reinforced concrete ( RC ) slab sits on top of

A floor framing plan for a given building is shown in the figure below. The reinforced concrete (RC) slab sits on top of the floor beams and does not make contacts with the girders. This gives rise to the so-called one-way slab behavior ?1 when estimating loads carried by beams and girders. The shaded areas in the figure shows the tributary areas ?2 of floor beam B1 and B4, respectively.
Please solve the support reactions and include a free body diagram. Based on the vertical load paths, plot the moment diagrams of floor beam B1 and girder G1, respectively. Assume the self-weight of the floor beam B1 and girder G1 can be neglected compared to the bending moment caused by the slab weight. The thickness of the RC slab is 4 inches, and the unit weight of reinforced concrete is 150 pcf.
Hint: All floor beams and girders are assumed herein as simply supported beams.
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