Reinforced roofing members include reinforced planks, light weight concrete members, small reinforced members, purlins, and large reinforced members. Reinforced planks are hollow tiles with longitudinal holes and grooves for reinforcement. Light weight concrete members provide insulation and load support, with thicknesses from 7.5-25cm and unit weights of 750kg/m3. Small reinforced members are precast ribbed slabs from 50-120cm wide and 2-4m long. Purlins are precast concrete beams that support roof coverings and can have rectangular, trapezoid, L, T, or I cross-sections. Large reinforced members rest on main girders and are manufactured in lengths of 6

1. PREFABRICATED ELEMENTS
ROOFING MEMBERS
Presented By: Yaseen Raza

2. Roofing members
Roofing members are classified as,
• Reinforced planks.
• Light weight concrete members.
• Small reinforced roofing members.
• purlins
• Large reinforced roofing members.
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3. • Reinforced planks are made of hollow tiles. The reinforced planks
with longitudinal circular holes have thickness equal to 60mm,
80mm & 100mm & the width is 200mm & length varies from
360mm to 400mm. On the upper side one longitudinal groove is
provided.
• Reinforcement is placed into these grooves which are subsequently
filled with cement mortar. In this way, roofs of length 2 to 3m &
thickness of 60 to 100mm & width 200mm can be constructed.
• The end tiles resting on the support are provided with 3.11mm dia
stirrups protruding from the tile. They are kept together over
mortar of 40mm thickness in further concreting of joint and the
joint is completed. 3
Reinforced planks

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5. Light weight concrete roofing members play a role in addition to space
bordering & load bearing in heat insulation.
• The thickness varies from 7.5 to 25cm for reinforcement of Light weight
concrete roofing members. Wading nets are used.
• steel reinforcement is given additional coating to prevent any corrosion
care is taken to give good bonding of reinforcement with concrete.
• The unit weight of these members is 750kg/m3 & width of 50cm. Length
varies from 1.75cm to 6m.
• precast members can be made either in usual way using light weight
materials.
• sand as aggregate & combination of high strength concrete.
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Light weight concrete roofing members

6. • The top & bottom layer of about 2 to 3cm thickness is provided with high
strength concrete.
• It consists of pre stressed 2.5mm dia bars embedded in these layers.
• The middle portion is made with light weight concrete.
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7. The Small reinforced concrete roofing members is
essentially precast simply supported ribbed
concrete slab width varying from 50 to 120cm &
length varying from 2 to 4m.
• This kind of light, coffered small roofing
members are produced in building component
factories on vibrating tables.
• These can also be placed onto steel purlins.
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Small reinforced concrete roofing members

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9. Purlins
• Are precast reinforced concrete beams supported by the main
girders serving the purpose of bearing the roof covering itself.
• Cross- sections is generally rectangular but it can also have a
trapezoid, L, T or I – profile.
• Precast purlins can be simply supported or cantilever beams.
• For the bearing of loads beyond their own weight simply
supported purlins can be transformed into continuous beams.
• Purlins are either set on to the top of principal girders or partly
or entirely lowered in respect to the top.
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12. Large reinforced concrete rest on the main girders.
• These are generally used for large hall structures & these are most
advanced type of precast structures.
• Members are manufactured corresponding to spacing of the frame
length of about 6 to 10m & width of 1.3 to 1.8m.
• As they are mostly supported on main girder purlins are not
required.
• Four kinds of members exist:
• Normal members.
• Intermediate members.
• Members with cornice.
• Members with gutter & eves border. 12
Large reinforced concrete roofing members:

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