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A two-way slab is a slab that is supported on all its four sides by beams. The supports carry the loads along both directions of the slab. Hence, it is called a two-way slab. If the longer span of the slab is ly and the shorter span is lx, then if it is a two-way slab, ly/lx is less than 2