Any body know much about concrete floors and weight loads?

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Hart1985 said:
.....Nothing else for it but to turn it into a brackish water mangrove swamp tank archer fish here we come. Never kept brackish water fish
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There is a freshwater species of archers- fw ok for their whole life.
 
Hart1985 said:
Tank is 10 kilo newtons full and the base is 1.3 meters squared


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Going by the 1.25Kn per meter figure your tank would be overweight even with only 6" of water in it, but so would a 10 gallon tank. Your body is probably over the weight limit for the area you take up when standing also. Luckily that's not how floor weight ratings work. Your tank will be fine, but should probably be placed against a load bearing wall.
 
Megabass said:
My garage floor has a truck and 2 cars parked on it


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strollo22 said:
I'd get a better structural engineer. 6-7" of concrete is VERY strong. 1 car weighs more than your tank. Can you not park a car in a garage?


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He stated in the OP that this is a suspended slab. I'm no structual engineer, but I doubt they would allow you to part a 2+ ton car on a suspended slab. Garage floors are a completely different animal.
 
even if it was a suspended slab he can put a fish tank on there.
would your structural engineer say that you can have a party in your room if there was to many people? say 20 people weighing around 150 pounds each? that is 3000 pounds. i would get a another opinion from another structural engineer.
 
rwellbaum said:
even if it was a suspended slab he can put a fish tank on there.
would your structural engineer say that you can have a party in your room if there was to many people? say 20 people weighing around 150 pounds each? that is 3000 pounds. i would get a another opinion from another structural engineer.
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There is a difference between acceptable live loading spec and dead load specs.
 
This is good stuff! I love these threads. Im my experience, it seems like the weight of a fish tank is different, for some reason, than any other weight out there?
If I was a 233 pound fish tank, when I stand on my toes and then lift one foot up so all my weight is on just one foot...........I should push right through concrete and fall through the floor! Because I'm a 233 pound man the concrete supports me fine, even though the pounds per square inch on my one foot is greater than the pounds per square inch on my 450 gallon tank sitting on an 8X3 base.
My piano should be in China, thankfully it's not a fish tank :)
 
My background is in structural engineering and I reckon you should be right. Most designs have a factor of safety in them and depending on design standards for you country could be anywhere between say 3 & 5 times the design strength. Also most bath tubs when full would exceed 1.25kPa. If your really worried you could try and place the tank closer to where the floor is being supported.


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