| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L66786/01 |
| Title: |
BEHAVIOUR AND DESIGN OF CONCRETE INDUSTRIAL GROUND FLOORS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Austin, Professor S |
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| Department: |
Civil and Building Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Loughborough University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
15 September 1997 |
Ends: |
14 September 2000 |
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162,514
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| Civil Engineering Materials |
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Close tolerance, heavy duty floors provide the basic working surface for many industries. Many are unsuitable for modern applications and are being replaced. Current design and construction approaches have been generally successful, but the demands for high performance floors to carry racking systems and truck movements are revealing their limitations. Inadequate slab performance arises from a lack of understanding of slab behaviour by designers, specifiers and contractors.The aim of this project is to advance the understanding of how concrete industrial ground floors behave, through insitu monitoring during and after construction, i.e. to improve understanding of how the early age development of the concrete's material properties can interact with the climate/curing and form of construction (joints, reinforcement and slab restraint) to produce a lightly stressed concrete that can efficiently (i.e. reduced slab thickness and less reinforcement) carry the susbsequent stresses due to the imposed load.The research will involve: collection of existing performance data; instrumentation and monitoring of slabs and adjacent climate on several sites through construction and into service; measurement of key concrete properties; incorporation of the data acquired into a materials performance model for prediction of slab behaviour; and reporting and dissemination of the findings of the research.
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http://www.lboro.ac.uk |