The Bubble Deck slab is an innovative construction technique that incorporates spherical plastic voids inside concrete slabs to diminish self-weight while preserving structural integrity. This technology reduces the amount of material used by a significant amount by carefully replacing non-structural concrete with voids, which results in cost savings and improved sustainability. The production of bubble deck slabs, their design principles, benefits, drawbacks, and new developments in their use are all covered in this review study. Particular emphasis is placed on their role in modern construction, highlighting their environmental benefits, ease of installation, and structural performance compared to conventional solid slabs. Additionally, the study also highlights critical research areas, including the interaction between voids and reinforcement, the slab's behavior under static and dynamic loading conditions, and its contribution to sustainable building practices. Bubble Deck slabs help make concrete production more sustainable by minimizing the total carbon impact, improving load distribution, and decreasing construction waste. Even with these limitations, recent progress in material science and computational modeling has strengthened their potential as a sustainable and efficient substitute for standard reinforced concrete slabs. The use of Bubble Deck technology is an important advancement in the direction of structural systems that are more efficient in their use of resources and that perform better, as construction practices continue to develop toward more environmentally friendly solutions.
This research investigates the impact resistace of reinforced high strength concrete slabs with steel meshes (BRC) modified by styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) with different weight ratios of polymer to cement as follows: 3%, 5% and 7%. Reference mix was produced for comparison of results. For all selected mixes, cubes (100×100×100mm) were made for compressive strength test at (365) days. In conducting low-velocity impact test, method of repeated falling mass was used: 1400gm steel ball falling freely from height of 2400mm on reinforced panels of (50×50×800 mm) reinforced with one layer of (BRC). The number of blows causing first crack and final perforation (failure) were calculated, according to the former results, the energy of each case was found. Results showed an improvement in compressive strength of polymer modified high strength concrete (PMHSC) over reference mix; the maximum increase being of it were (3.93%-11.96%) at age of (365) days. There is significant improvement in low-velocity impact resistance of all polymer modified mixes over reference mix. Results illustrated that polymer modified mix of (3%) give the its higher impact resistance than others, the increase of its impact resistance at failure over reference mix was (154.76%) while, for polymer modified mix (5%) it was (30.95%) and it was (14.28%) for polymer modified mix of (7%).
The impact resistances of concrete slabs have a different volume fraction replacement of waste plastic aggregate has been examined in this study as a fine aggregate as: 0% (reference), 10%, 20% and 30%. These tests include the splitting tensile, density, compressive strength. Also, the (ultrasonic pulse velocity tests) was carried out. Repeated falling mass was used in order to carry out the low-velocity impact test in which a 1300 gm steel ball was utilized. From a height of 2400mm, the ball falls freely on concrete panels of (500×500×50 mm) with a network of waste plastic aggregate. As per the results, a prominent development was seen in the mechanical properties for mixes involving polyethylene aggregate up to 20% as compared to the reference mix. A significant development was seen in low-velocity impact resistance of all mixes involving waste plastic fine aggregate as compared to reference mix. As per the results, the greater impact resistance at failure is offered by the mix with (20%) waste plastic aggregate by volume of sand than others. The reference mix increased by (712.5%).